Watches Go Fast

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1743

Date Released

29 Oct 1962

Date Other

Oct 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cuba - The World Waits
2. 2Keep Right for Continent
3. 3London’s Lady Ambassador
4. 4Use Your Head!
5. 5Watches Go Fast
6. 6Glasgow - Defeat by Fire

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Watches Go Fast. DESCRIPTION: A shop in Vienna offered clocks and watches free to the first thousand customers. Well, the crowd got a bit carried away, and the police were called in! SHOTLIST: Key scene. TS crowd. MS crowd controlled by police. MS people enter shop. MS man straps watch to wrist. MS police. MS woman given clock. MS man with wrist watch. MS broken window. MS crowd at window. MS police hold back crowd. MS assistants clear window.

Keywords

Shops and shopping; Riots

Locations

Vienna; Austria

Footage sources

Austria

Card file number

85287

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

71

Story extras:

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