Chichester - Britain’s Newest Theatre

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1712

Date Released

26 Mar 1962

Date submitted

22 Mar 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Chichester - Britain’s Newest Theatre
2. 2Melbourne Makes Moomba
3. 3Over to Youth
4. 4Hat Tricks!
5. 5The Army’s Young Sweats

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Britain’s Newest Theatre. DESCRIPTION: Dramatic news from the cathedral city of Chichester, Britain’s newest theatre, the Chichester Festival Theatre, as it’s called, is to have Sir Laurence Olivier as its director. Final stages of construction were going on outside, as well as inside, but Sir Laurence was good enough to say a word for us on the spot. The first season is due to open early in July with the 17th century play The Chances by John Fletcher, and the company of 40 under Sir Laurence’s direction includes many names already famous in the British theatre. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV Chichester (2 shots). LS theatre. MS same. MS Sir Laurence Olivier approaches theatre. CU Olivier. LS works in progress. CU Olivier speaks. (speech). LS Olivier enters theatre. MLS Olivier upstairs. GV Olivier looks around inside (7 shots).

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Performing arts

Locations

Chichester

Card file number

84084

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

167

Story extras:

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