New Liners

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1461

Date Released

3 Jun 1957

Date submitted

30 May 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1West Indies - 1st Test
2. 2New Liners
3. 3New Liners
4. 4For Record Bid
5. 5Mobile Policewoman
6. 6Trouble on the Line
7. 7For Your Holidays
8. 8Big Chief Football

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Liners. DESCRIPTION: A twenty foot model of a new French liner, on trial in a test tank in Paris. The liner to be named France, will be laid down at Saint Nazaire this Autumn. She’ll be a giant ship of 50,000 tons, carrying some two thousand passengers and will have a speed of thirty knots. SHOTLIST: SCU model of France. GV in tank. Closer model in tank riding the artificial swell. General views. CU remote control gear. CU. General view. SCU.

Keywords

Ships and boats

Locations

France; Paris

Footage sources

France

Card file number

70868

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

83

Story extras:

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