Athletes Settle Down at Helsinki

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1207

Date Released

21 Jul 1952

Date submitted

17 Jul 1952

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Olympic Preliminaries. DESCRIPTION: Helsinki, Finland’s capital, is all ready for the Games - Olympic signs were to be seen everywhere for the life of the city is now virtually given over to the forthcoming meeting. Pictures from the British camp show that the Athletes are settling down in their quarters, while the Russian camp (although it is now impossible to get a glimpse of it) has a good deal of hush-hush about it. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV stadium entrance. Various GVs of stadium, also with swimming pool in background. Elevated GVs of the city, also Olympic signs along streets & everywhere. Various shots of competitors strolling round. British teams quarters. Queuing for food at restaurant. GV empty road. Several shots of Iron Curtain village. Poster of Stalin being erected. Various shots of Russian competitors strolling around.

Keywords

Sport; Buildings and structures; Food and cooking

Locations

Helsinki

Footage sources

British Paramount
Rota

Card file number

57526

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

185

Story extras:

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