Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Ship Launched by Radio
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pretoria Castle Launched By Radio. DESCRIPTION: The Pretoria Castle went down the slipway in Belfast, launched via the radio by Mrs Smuts thousands of miles away in South Africa. SHOTLIST: KS GV ship’s bows - on stocks. Crowds around slipway. CU name Pretoria Castle on bows. Sir Vernon Thompson on launching platform addresses Mrs Smuts in South Africa over radio. GV bottle of champagne breaking on bows (launched by radio). Elevated shot as ship begins to move down slipway. Ship out of camera. Shot of ship in the water. Cut-in of workmen pulling away the piles, stocks etc. from underneath ship. The SS Pretoria Castle is a Union Castle liner.
- Local distribution only
- Special version also.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Launchings
- Locations
- Belfast
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
- Card file number
- 49038
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 137
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