News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2122

Date Released

2 Feb 1970

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. News Scene: The Famous Carnival at Viareggio. Huge Floats Bearing Grotesque and Satirical Figures Move Through the Crowded Streets in This Typically Italian Holiday Festival
• 2. News Scene: Violent Storms Tear an American Naval Cargo Ship from Her Moorings and the Drifting Vessel Crashes Through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. One Section of the Bridge Missing - The Ship Hardly Damaged.
• 3. Fashion
• 4. Sportabout: Sporting Personalities at Variety Club of Great Britain Luncheon
• 5. Sportabout: The Amersham Angels V. Luton Ladies in a Muddy Battle
• 6. Sportabout: The Prix d’Amerique - One of Europe’s Most Important Trotting Races - Won by French Entry Toscan
• 7. Sportabout: Snow-Karting Near Grindenwald
• 8. Sportabout: The European Speed-Skating Championships Won by Ard Schenk of the Netherlands

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 8

Section Title

Sportabout

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sportabout (Variety Club). SHOTLIST: MCU Jack Bodell & Joe Bugner. MS Anneli Drummond-Hay. Christine Janes, Virginia Wade. MCU Sir Stanley Rous & George Wigg, Viscount Cobham. MCU Lilian Board, Ron Alliss. GV head table. MS Denis Howell. GV lunch assembly. MCU Percy Livingstone & Joe Bugner. MS Stirling Moss, Dixon Wright, Graham Hill.

Keywords

Sport; Organisations; Politics and government; Celebrations and festivals

Locations

London; Savoy Hotel

Card file number

95573

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

83

Story extras:

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