News Items from Abroad: Oslo Olympics Close

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1187

Date Released

3 Mar 1952

Date Other

Jan 1970

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Spring Hats
2. 2The Queen’s First Investiture
3. 3Fiji Warriors for Malaya
4. 4India Sees Eclipse
5. 5News Items from Abroad: Oslo Olympics Close
6. 6News Items from Abroad: Split Tanker
7. 7News Items from Abroad: Hair Cut
8. 8News Items from Abroad: Transport Strike

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 8

Section Title

News Items from Abroad

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Closing Winter Olympics. DESCRIPTION: The ending of the Winter Olympic Games at Oslo was marked by a ceremony of flags. After the national flags had been lowered, the great Olympic flag itself played its symbolic part in the final ritual. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Various national flags. Flags of all nations competing paraded on ice stadium. Flags lowered & raised. Cut-ins crowds watching. Olympic flag lowered & carried off. Night material.

Keywords

Sport; Buildings and structures; Ceremonies

Locations

Oslo

Footage sources

Gaumont
Rota

Card file number

56832

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

54

Story extras:

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