Something to See

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2066
Date Released
6 Jan 1969
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Something to See. DESCRIPTION: Pilot a Vulcan Bomber - Meet a top-line Dee-Jay - Watch Fashion Shows - learn Speed Skating! It’s all happening at the Daily Mail’s New Year Show, where they even teach you chess. No room for novices at the Annual Chess Congress at Hastings, where Grand Masters set the standard and nearly four hundred players compete from more than twenty countries. SHOTLIST: MS Danny Arnold - Deputy Sheriff from San Antonio, Texas, showing children how to draw. MS girl on catwalk. CU person eating ice cream. MS models walk into camera. MS cricket instruction by Alf Glover. MCU man showing boys aircraft. MCU boy holding joystick in cockpit of RAF Vulcan Bomber. MCU cubs at counter of stall. LAS cubs getting drinks. CU boys drinking. MS girls getting autographs from Ed Stewart (Disc Jockey). MS chess sign. 3 shots chess games. CU chess board and book. GV pan Hastings Harbour. MCU girl playing chess. 2 shots Malcolm Muggeridge. GV Congress hall interior. CU chess player. MCU chess player. 2 shots blind player. 6 shots various people playing chess. Personalities playing mentioned in commentary but not mentioned on shot list: Gligoric (Grand Master of Yugoslavia), Smyslov (Former Champion of Russia), Smejkal (Czechoslovakia), Max Fuller (Australia) & Peter Clark (British).
Keywords
Sport; Organisations; Entertainment and leisure; Food and cooking; Displays; Aviation; Competitions; Newspapers; Crime; Fashion and costume; Performing arts; Military; Exhibitions and shows; Youth; Disabled persons
Locations
London; Hastings; United Kingdom
Card file number
94292
Credits:
Camera
John Mould
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Maurice Ford
Length of story (in feet)
182
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Something to See', British Movietone News Issue No. 2066, 6 Jan 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27694 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)