Straight Home

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1676
Date Released
17 Jul 1961
Date submitted
13 Jul 1961
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Parking in the Air
  2. 2Straight Home
  3. 3Taj Mahal Face-Lift
  4. 4In Orbit with Yuri
  5. 5But - in Moscow...

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Straight Home. DESCRIPTION: The scene’s at Oxford, where birds competing in one of the National Flying Club’s Grand National Races had to rally. All details were registered before the pigeons left for Pau, in South-Western France, the starting point for the off. How they find their way for some five or six hundred miles, I can’t tell you, but they do!. And here is a fancier at Ealing, laying on the sort of welcome a homing pigeon goes for! SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS man checking pigeons. CU pigeons drinking from trough. CU another. GV pigeon loft. CU pigeon being marked. CU pigeon being ringed. CU another pigeon being marked. CU another pigeon being ringed. CU label on pigeon basket. MS pigeon baskets being taken away. MS pigeon baskets taken from stacks. MS baskets being taken into train wagon. MS another. LS starched pigeon baskets after journey. MS troughs filled with water. CU pigeon drinking. CU basket being unlocked. MLS pan as pigeons are released. LS pigeon reaches home. GV garden of pigeon owner. CU watcher. LS another flies in. LS pigeon lands on roof tops. MS timekeeper checks watch. LS another lands on roof top. MS timekeeper points out the pigeon. LS another reaches home. MS man catches pigeon. CU pigeon ring is removed. CU pigeon’s ring is clocked in. CU pigeon.
Keywords
Animals
Locations
France; Ealing; Oxford; Pau
Card file number
82801
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Jeffrey K. Shearley
Camera
John Abbott
Length of story (in feet)
161
Story extras:
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