Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: To Reach the Japs - Alaska Highway
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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Alaska Highway. DESCRIPTION: It begins in Alberta and runs north to Alaska involving 1,600 miles of road engineering by the US Army. SHOTLIST: GV of road, elevated shots. Countryside before road was built, bulldozer knocking down trees etc. Men smashing granite, tractors & scrappers smoothing out ground. Lorries crossing pontoon bridge, shot from water - very good. Various elevated angle shots of roadway, VG. Aerial shot of country through which road is going to run. Some of the machines seen being used are indescribable, even dope reads "Machines looking like strange monsters". The various shots of this highway from all angles are extremely good.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Environment; Industry and manufacture; Road transport; Engineering; Scenery and travel
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 42980
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 109
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