Skill on the Slopes
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Skill on the Slopes. DESCRIPTION: Somebody in America thought up this way of learning an outdoor sport indoors. It’s the Ski-Dek, an incline with a rapidly moving surface. It travels uphill, giving beginners the feeling of travelling downhill. Over in Germany, the British four-man bob-team is seen during trials for the world bobsleigh championships. Some fast times were returned over this run at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS group on Ski-Dek. MS ditto. MS ditto. MS spectators. MS 3 skiers. MS ditto. Back shot. Woman doing the twist. MS same woman. MS British bob team pushes off. MS British team at speed. (3 shots) various teams. MLS bobsleigh nearly turns over. MLS bobsleigh crashes. Bobsleigh past cameraman. Fall off.
- Keywords
- Sport; Winter sports; Newsreels
- Locations
- United States of America; Germany
- Footage sources
- United States of America
Germany
- Card file number
- 83784
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 92
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