Learning on ScreenNew Guinea - Desperate Search
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Desperate Search. DESCRIPTION: It was off the coast of Dutch New Guinea that Michael Rockefeller, son of New York’s millionaire Governor, was last seen, swimming to that inhospitable shore. Flashback to that happy day in 1959, when Mr Nelson Rockefeller attended his son Stephen’s wedding with a Norwegian girl. Michael was there, too. Now, in New Guinea, his father himself went out to look for his explorer son, and every possible step was being taken to find Michael. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS coast of Dutch New Guinea. GV aerial same. MCU Governor Rockefeller with captain of plane. MS pan same. MS pan Nelson Rockefeller arrives at his son’s wedding. MS son Steven poses for wedding photographs. MS wedding photograph. MS zoom in on Michael Rockefeller in wedding photo. MLS plane. MS helicopter is unloaded from plane. MCU same. MCU New Guinea natives looking on. MCU men looking at map. CU map. MS helicopter takes off. LS aerial shot of ship in the search. MS inside aeroplane. MCU man looking through binoculars. LS aerial shot of country.
- Keywords
- Economics; Business and commerce; Social events; Marriages; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Norway; New Guinea
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 83541
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 113
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