To Sail for Britain

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1505

Date Released

7 Apr 1958

Date submitted

21 Mar 1958

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: To Sail for Britain. DESCRIPTION: She was ready for her launching: at Sandbank, on the Clyde. Lady Gore, wife of the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Commodore, named her, Sceptre: and sent her down, to the waters of Holy Loch. Sceptre’s to be the seventeenth challenger, for the America’s Cup; held by the United States for 107 years. Sceptre will be racing against Evaine, before being shipped, across the Atlantic. SHOTLIST: MS yacht. GV ‘Sceptre’. CU Lady Gore and two men. CU stern. MS Sceptre launched. MS Sceptre entering water. CU stern. GV Sceptre. MS flag on stern of ‘Sceptre’. GV yacht ‘Evaine’. CU same speeding through water. GV Evaine. CU speeding through water. MS captain at helm. CU sails. MS men attending to sails. CU men working on yacht. CU yacht. GV same. CU same. CU yacht passing camera. SCEPTRE UNDER SAIL - CARD 73417 Shots of the yacht ‘Sceptre’ sailing. (89 ft).

Keywords

Sport; Ships and boats; Sailing; Launchings

Locations

Scotland; Isle of Wight; England; Clyde

Card file number

73201

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: John Charles Elder
Camera: Len Waldorf

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