All Colour Reel: Cooling Tower Demolition

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2330A
Date Released
31 Jan 1974
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Section Title
All Colour Reel
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cooling Tower Demolition - Colour. DESCRIPTION: Cooling towers at Croydon Power Station, are demolished by controlled explosives. SHOTLIST: SGV Croydon ‘A’ power station. CU sign Croydon A grid sub station. BGV 2 cooling towers for demolition. SV interior in cooling tower, pan from top to wall showing charge. SV charges in place. SV crowds gathered. AS cameramen on stand. SV 2 cooling towers for demolition. CU man setting up detonator. CU man winding detonator, man presses side button. GV cooling tower explodes, collapses. CU man winding detonator, presses fire button. GV cooling tower explodes, collapses, pan up to building collapsing. SV pan demolished remains of cooling tower. SV pan ditto pan to other demolished cooling tower. CU rubble. SV demolished cooling tower. SV workmen looking. GV cooling tower blown up, collapses slow motion. SV men, women & children watching. GV cooling tower blown up, collapses slow motion. Selected scenes. 2 shots towers collapsing. Good shots Movietone cameramen setting up cameras.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Mass media; Explosions; Engineering; Newsreels
Locations
Croydon
Card file number
99649
Credits:
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Camera
Paul Kavanagh
Length of story (in feet)
198
Story extras:
Film clip

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'All Colour Reel: Cooling Tower Demolition', British Movietone News Issue No. 2330A, 31 Jan 1974. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/30217 (Accessed 04 Mar 2025)