Shoot That Mountain
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shoot That Mountain. DESCRIPTION: It was no easy task to drive the Trans-Canada Highway through the treacherous Glacier National Park. Heavy snowfalls are the problem. They could avalanche down and bury the motorist alive. One safeguard was the erection of sheds, and lumps, called Dragon’s Teeth are yet another way of keeping the mountain snows off the road. There are men whose job it is to locate potential snow slides. As soon as they’ve spotted an avalanche in the making, they signal avalanche control who calls in the army. Their orders are to shoot it down. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV mountains. GV another. GV another. MS lorry up to mountain. MS inside of lorry. MS lorry into tunnel. MS through tunnel. LS skiers. MLS skier across snow. MLS lorry across snow. MS skier down mountain. MS skier checks weather forecast. MS man checks weather forecast. CU controls. MS man in car. MS men on lorry past camera. MCU two skiers. MS men by gun. CU gun. (3 shots) men load gun. GV mountain. CU man. MCU gun fires. MS bullet into mountain. (2 shots) snow falls off mountain.
- Keywords
- Weather; Transport; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Canada
- Footage sources
- National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 84362
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 162
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