Australian Contest

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1596

Date Released

4 Jan 1960

Date submitted

30 Dec 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1India’s Giant Project
2. 2Australian Contest
3. 3A Plane of the Future
4. 4Too Much Rain. Welsh Hill Moves
5. 5Too Much Rain. Floods in Ireland
6. 61960 Arrives

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Australian Contest. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show a tree-felling competition, part of the fun around New Year in the State of Victoria. There is a prize for the first truck load of timber past the post. SHOTLIST: LS men felling trees. CU same. CU sawing machine. MS tree falling to the ground. LS trees falling. MS men lopping trees. MS same. CU same. Pan - horses dragging tree trunks. Pan horse galloping. Pan 2 horses dragging trees. CU tree trunks being pulled. MS man lifting tree trunk. LS same. Pan men loading trees onto lorry. Pan lorry moving off.

Keywords

Vehicles; Competitions; Celebrations and festivals; Forestry; Animals

Locations

Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

78987

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

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