Colour: Loch Ness Marathon Swim

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2240
Date Released
8 May 1972
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Section Title
Colour
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Loch Ness Marathon Swim - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Scottish University students compete in a Relay Swimming Race at Loch Ness to raise money for Spastics. SHOTLIST: SV Scotsman in kilt sitting on bank overlooking Loch Ness. GV pan Loch Ness. SV water of Loch, large head of Loch Ness Monster comes into picture. GV pan competitors gathering at start. SV Roberta McCartney from Edinburgh being greased for swim. SV Norman MacLeod from Dundee putting on trouser wet suit. SV Peter Anderson greasing up (St Andrews). SCU Linda Dunton with wet suit on (Edinburgh). SV Russ Taylor starts race with pistol. McCartney, Merser & Anderson walk into water. SV crowds watching. SV swimmers start to swim. GV Loch with swimmers in distance. LV competitors swimming. LV swimmers with rafts in foreground. SV McCartney swimming. CU ditto. GV Loch, zoom into swimmers. SV rescue launch going out. SV Cecilla Rollo (Edinburgh) swimming as night falls. Ditto being taken on board rescue boat. SV Jon Creswell (St Andrews) jumping off raft into water at nightfall. GV swimmer at night. SV swimmer changing over from boat at Loch side. SV man looking through telescope. GV zoom into Loch to boat and swimmers. Hazel Strain going into water from boat (relief from Liz Arthur). SBV strain swimming. GV pan people watching finish at Inverness. SV 1st man out of water Neville Fish (St Andrews). SV crowds watching on bank. SV Paul Thomas (Dundee) coming 2nd, man walks past and nearly knocks Thomas back in the water. CU Cutty Sark Loch Ness University Challenger Swim Cup, zoom back to cup & Loch Ness.
Keywords
Fundraising
Locations
Scotland; Loch Ness
Card file number
98106
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
245
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Colour: Loch Ness Marathon Swim', British Movietone News Issue No. 2240, 8 May 1972. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29369 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)