World News Items: Scots Baseball Fan

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1206

Date Released

14 Jul 1952

Date submitted

7 Jul 1952

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1World News Items: Lone World Sailor
2. 2World News Items: Volcano Comes to Life
3. 3World News Items: Dare-Devil Car Act
4. 4World News Items: Scots Baseball Fan
5. 5World News Items: Queen’s Investiture
6. 6World News Items: The Swift
7. 7Ridgeway’s Visit
8. 8Royal Garden Party
9. 9Republican Convention

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 9

Section Title

World News Items

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World News Items - Scots Baseball Fan. DESCRIPTION: Complete with hot dog, Alistair Butch Forbes (from Aberdeen) has been in Brooklyn to root for the Dodgers. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Alastair Forbes eats hot dog. Shots of him making baseball strokes, interviewed by one of the American players, he likes baseball but doesn’t like cricket because its too slow.

Keywords

Sport; Food and cooking

Locations

Brooklyn

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

57470

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

48

Story extras:

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