Jumbos Arriving
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jumbos Arriving. DESCRIPTION: Fourteen baby elephants arrive from Delhi to begin life in the circus of Billy Smarts. First time this number of pachyderms have been transported. SHOTLIST: MLS plane taxiing in, man walks to plane. MS people watching. MS baby elephant being led off plane. MS photographers. MCU baby elephants. MS towards and pan another elephant led down ramp from plane. MS pan another elephant led off plane. MCU 2 elephants. CU man hugging elephant. CU elephant eating. MS pan people watching and man with fork lift truck waiting. LS another elephant coaxed off plane with ropes. MS handlers and crowd with 2 elephants. MS elephant with rope round its leg walking backwards.
- Keywords
- Children; Animals
- Locations
- Stansted Airport
- Card file number
- 97785
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 107
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How to cite this record
'Jumbos Arriving', British Movietone News Issue No. 2223, 10 Jan 1972. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29194 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)