Mount Ararat of Steel

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

727-2

Date Released

3 Aug 1925

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Honour the Rifle Brigade!
2. 2Princess Mary
3. 3Smart as Paint
4. 4And Now ‘Our Sons of the Sea’
5. 5Mount Ararat of Steel
6. *The Highland Motor Trial

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Our cameramen’s daring climb at Daventry, up world’s loftiest broadcaster." Long shot of the tower and then a closer shot of the cameraman standing at the bottom. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "450 feet up - and still going strong!". Shots taken from high up inside the tower looking downwards as the men climb up and then a view of the ground taken from the top. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "The aerial". As it appears from the top of the pylon. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "The power house and earth rings". Looking down on the buildings. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "'Topical’ on top - as usual". Close-up of the cameramen.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Mass media; Newsreels

Length of story (in feet)

94

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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