News Briefs: New Highway

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1280

Date Released

14 Dec 1953

Date submitted

10 Dec 1953

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Beach Fashions for Australian Sunshine
2. 2News Briefs: Poultry on Show
3. 3News Briefs: New Highway
4. 4News Briefs: US Tornado
5. 5Fighting Jungle Bandits
6. 6President’s Atomic Speech
7. 7Sub - Premier Home

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Section Title

News Briefs

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News Briefs - New Highway. DESCRIPTION: La Guaira, chief port of Venezuela, is now joined to Caracas (the capital) by a fine new highway - an engineering masterpiece officially opened by Colonel Jimenez, the President. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. LS of highway. Ditto elevated view. Official party including President Colonel Marcos Perez Jimenez walk down road, through crowds. President waving etc. Cut-ins pressmen. SCU President cuts tape to officially open new highway. Various views of highway, trucking shot through tunnel etc.

Keywords

Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Ceremonies; Road transport; Engineering

Locations

Venezuela; La Guarira

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

60197

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

50

Story extras:

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