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World Wide Survey: Sweden - Tribute to Famous Sculptor

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1374
Date Released
3 Oct 1955
Date submitted
29 Sep 1955
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1World Wide Survey: France - A Postman’s Holiday
  2. 2World Wide Survey: Austria - Army’s First Parade
  3. 3World Wide Survey: Sweden - Tribute to Famous Sculptor
  4. 4World Wide Survey: Turkey - Finance Conference
  5. 5World Wide Survey: Israel - Border Incident
  6. 6World Wide Survey: Israel - Oil Strike
  7. 7World Wide Survey: USA - The President’s Illness
  8. 8World Wide Survey: Argentina - New Leader Acclaimed
  9. 9World Wide Survey: Cambodia - Elections
  10. 10World Wide Survey: South Africa - Last Rugger Test
  11. 11World Wide Survey: Great Britain - What’s the Time

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 11
Section Title
World Wide Survey
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Swedish Sculptors Funeral. DESCRIPTION: The Swedish home of Carl Milles, the world famous sculptor, and the celebrated garden containing many typical examples of his work. Milles (who has just died at the age of eighty) was one of the greatest European sculptors of our time. SHOTLIST: GV statues in Carl Milles’ garden. SCU house at top of steps where Milles lived. CU water garden with various shots of statues. SCU pall bearers carrying coffin from house. GV crowd lining streets. CU coffin being carried (borne) into church. King Gustav arriving and entering church.
Keywords
Arts and crafts
Locations
Stockholm; Sweden
Footage sources
France
Card file number
64704
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
68
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