Carnival Time

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1448

Date Released

4 Mar 1957

Date Other

Feb 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Visit to Harwell
2. 2The Sixth Round - Burnley V Aston Villa
3. 3The Sixth Round - Bournemouth V Manchester United
4. 4New Zealand Greets Sir Anthony
5. 5Carnival Time
6. 6Homage to BP - Scouts VC
7. 7The Grand National is Coming

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Carnival Time. DESCRIPTION: The most famous European carnival parade took place at Viareggio, in Italy. Hundreds of artists worked for months at the preparation of the wonderful cars, which had to file off for the traditional carnival’s procession. The enormous animated monuments were built entirely with old newspapers. SHOTLIST: General view of the floats. SCU of the floats. Dragons. Whirls. Cyclists. Mouth. General view.

Keywords

Vehicles; Customs and traditions; Arts and crafts

Locations

Italy; Viareggio

Footage sources

Italy

Card file number

69898

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

71

Story extras:

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