The Tale of a Swan

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1557A

Date Released

9 Apr 1959

Date submitted

6 Apr 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Budget
2. 2Motoring Memories
3. 3A Royal Patient
4. 4The Tale of a Swan
5. 5The Prince in the Islands
6. *St Mirren V Celtic

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tale of a Swan. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show Swan lake, Moscow, and a swan that nearly pined away with grief over the loss of his mate. Now, he’s just mad about the keeper. Every morning, he taps at his window, demanding the attention of his friend, Pavel Granov. Before he formed this extraordinary attachment, the swan had refused to eat or to go swimming on the lake. But the keeper’s kindness put an end to all that. SHOTLIST: MS swan (key). MS swans on a lake. FS same. CU swan. SS same. CU swan taps on window. MS keeper leaves hut to see the swan. MS swan follows keeper. Closer same. MS keeper. LS swan rushes to keeper. Closer same. MS keeper. LS swan rushes to keeper. CU same swam flaps wings. CU swan and keeper.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland.

Keywords

Birds; Animals

Locations

Moscow; Soviet Union

Footage sources

Sovexportfilm

Card file number

76845

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

68

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive