Meat - First Shipment from Argentina

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1146A

Date Released

24 May 1951

Date submitted

22 May 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Visitors at Chelsea Flower Show
2. 2Meat - First Shipment from Argentina
3. 3Foreign Secretary in Germany
4. 4Bob Hope - Golfer
5. 5Bucking Jeeps
6. 6Glorious Gloucester’s Honoured
7. *Stocking Scots Loch

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: First Shipment of Argentine Beef. DESCRIPTION: Arriving aboard the liner Alcantara, over 1,200 tons of meat from Argentina have reached Southampton. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV dock - mostly cranes, a London dock. MS Alcantara alongside quay. CU names on bows. Looking down in hold, crane load of meat coming up towards camera. Various shots of meat (beef) being off loaded. CU one sack, labelled Frozen Meat - Chilled Quality. Various shots of same being placed on trucks & eventually to warehouses.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Southampton

Card file number

55499

Credits:

Camera

George Richardson

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

59

Story extras:

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