Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Engineers Replace Flood Damage

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1019A

Date Released

16 Dec 1948

Date submitted

13 Dec 1948

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Re’s Erect Bailey Bridge in Flooded Areas. DESCRIPTION: Serious flood damage in the border country, near Berwick. RE’s are called in to replace a bridge which has been washed away, with a Bailey Bridge. SHOTLIST: KS (Library - Aerial shots of flooded countryside. Ditto. Railway lines bent, nearly broken, several brick bridges complete washed away). Railway passenger train passes over temporary bridge. Royal Engineers putting up Bailey Bridge, fixing various sections. LS looking up river a Bailey Bridge partly finished, halfway across river. MS mobile crane and engineers push bridge into position. LS looking up river at bridge completed. Cut-in signpost reading Canty’s Bridge. Into camera, car passes over bridge. Elevated MS of same to finish.

Keywords

Accidents and disasters

Locations

Berwickshire

Footage sources

Universal

Card file number

51191

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

104

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