Home & Abroad: World’s Largest Tanker

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1289A

Date Released

18 Feb 1954

Date submitted

9 Feb 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Tour - Randwick Races
2. 2Home & Abroad: New Wraf Uniform
3. 3Home & Abroad: Lapland Round-Up
4. 4Home & Abroad: Mechanical Logging
5. 5Home & Abroad: World’s Largest Tanker
6. 6Home & Abroad: A Diver’s Mistake
7. 7Home & Abroad: Top Dogs
8. 8Rugger - England V Ireland
9. *Scotland V All Blacks

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 8

Section Title

Home & Abroad

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Worlds Largest Tanker. DESCRIPTION: The biggest oil tanker ever built, launched at Quincy, Massachusetts, is over 45,000 tons and 737 feet in length. SHOTLIST: Cut story - BG World Glory. Various shots of ship. Launch of same. Tanker slides into river. Shots of her afloat.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Launchings

Locations

Quincy; Massachusetts, USA

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

60516

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

41

Story extras:

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