Two-Way Church

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1487A

Date Released

5 Dec 1957

Date submitted

25 Nov 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thunderbird on Target
2. 2Ike’s Outing
3. 3Two-Way Church
4. 4Last Curtain
5. 5Market Day
6. 6An Unidentified Object
7. 7Taverners’ Ball

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Two-Way Church. DESCRIPTION: A Church (at an American Air Base near Newbury, Berkshire), has two distinct purposes, first it serves the Roman Catholic community. The second purpose of the Church is evident, when a turntable makes it a simple matter for the Catholic altar to be followed by a Protestant one. A Catholic and a Protestant Church in one. SHOTLIST: GS church. Shots of Catholics arriving for service. Interior GS altar. SCU 2 mothers and babies in the specially built’ Cry Box’. Shots of altar being turned round on turntable for Protestant service. Shots of Protestant congregation arriving.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Curiosities; Religion and belief

Locations

Berkshire; Greenham Common

Card file number

72199

Credits:

Commentator

Jeffrey K. Shearley

Camera

John Davies

Camera

Terry O’Brien

Length of story (in feet)

77

Story extras:

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