Wrong Way Down

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1441A

Date Released

17 Jan 1957

Date Other

Dec 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Minister of Power
2. 2Monaco Awaits Its Heir
3. 3Dancing Time
4. 4The Diving Padre
5. 5Aerial Fire Power
6. 6Suez - Trapped Ships Free
7. 7Canadian Oil Blaze
8. 8Up a Mine
9. 9Wrong Way Down
10. 10A Difference of Opinion
11. *Scotland Beats France - Rugby

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

9 / 10

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wrong Way Down. DESCRIPTION: A well-known landmark of Sydney’s foreshore was recently demolished. Care was taken that the chimney fell away from near-by buildings. But down it came in the wrong direction, 1300 tons of it, but no lives were lost. SHOTLIST: Workers knocking out bricks. MCU chimney falling down onto some buildings below. Rubble and buildings that were flattened. Reverse shot of the chimney going back up.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland.

Keywords

Demolition

Locations

Sydney; Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

69455A

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

56

Story extras:

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