Golf in the City

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2118
Date Released
5 Jan 1970
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Golf in the City. DESCRIPTION: In a disused Warehouse off Fleet Street, the City’s first Golf Club simulates the eighteen holes of the Walton Heath Old Course. An electronic brain works out the speed and direction of your strokes and flashes pictures on a screen to show where your ball has landed. SHOTLIST: MS pan 2 men enter city golf club. CU sign City Golf Club. MS 2 men enter bar. GV bar. CUs pint being pulled and barmaid. GV lounge. MS pan artificial tree in bar. TS 3 men in gymnasium. MCU man on trade bike. MS man on wall bars in gym, man hits golf ball at screen, lights flashing. MCU screen. MS man prepares to play stroke. CUs man’s face, ball being hit. MS man behind wire mesh, prepares to putt ball. CU ball rolls down hole.
Keywords
Organisations; Entertainment and leisure; Food and cooking; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
London; United Kingdom; Fleet Street
Card file number
95505
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Reginald William Smith
Length of story (in feet)
113
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Golf in the City', British Movietone News Issue No. 2118, 5 Jan 1970. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/28136 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)