News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2234A

Date Released

30 Mar 1972

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Mintoff Signs
• 2. Naval Ships
• 3. Baby Swimmers
• 4. Airport Buggy
• 5. Vintage Bus
• 6. Last Trolley-Bus

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Naval Ships. DESCRIPTION: Ships may come and ships may go but the really old ones just keep floating. 20 year old HMS Eagle, the Royal Navy’s Aircraft Carrier is on the scrap heap. At the same time the 155 year old ‘Foudroyant’ along with Nelson’s flag ship, is being restored. The death-watch beetle being given the ‘old heave ho!' The latest ship is HMS Antelope, a frigate. SHOTLIST: LS HMS Victory. CU sign Victory. MS HMS Victory with cannons on quayside pan up to Victory. AS scaffolding round mast of Victory pan down to scaffolding round ship. FV Victory. CU figurehead HMS Foudroyant. GV ditto in dry dock. MS pan along men repairing hull. MS guns and deck of Foudroyant. MS man cleaning bell by wheel. CU bell inscribed Foudroyant 1896. GV ship in dry dock. MS stern of ship. CU name Foudroyant on stern. CU bows of submarine Foudroyant as it goes down slipway. MLS pan Foudroyant entering water. LS submarine. GV HMS Antelope in shipyard. Angle shot top of bows & men standing on deck. MS crowd naval officers etc. watching. MS bows of Antelope, bottle breaks on bows. BV stern of Antelope entering water. Long front shot Antelope going down slipway. MS crowd cheering. LS Antelope in water. GV HMS Eagle at sea. Aerial view pan along deck, helicopter on deck. MS end of light deck, helicopter hovering above pan as Buccaneer takes off. GV dockyard pan to bow of HMS Eagle. CU name Eagle on bow. MS alongside Eagle moored at quay. AS superstructure of Eagle. MS pan along side of Eagle to bow. AS Eagle at sea.

Keywords

Ships and boats; History and archaeology

Locations

Portsmouth; Southampton

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

97916

Credits:

Commentator

Bob Sutton

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Camera

Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

206

Story extras:

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