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

7 / 8

Section Title

Sportabout

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sportabout - Tobogganing. DESCRIPTION: Intrepid contestants hurtle down a ferociously difficult snow-run on small and light sledges. SHOTLIST: MS toboggan, pan man starts off down slope. Series of shots men coming down slope. MS man falls off. 2 shots man going down slope. GV pan as man finishes course.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Switzerland

Footage sources

France

Card file number

95578

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

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