Learning on ScreenGrowing Up in the Orient
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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Growing Up in the Orient. DESCRIPTION: Buildings in the traditional style are becoming fewer and further between. In Hong Kong they’re building towards the vertical. They still use bamboo to build the scaffolding, even on structures thirty storeys high. Every country has its own way of celebrating the topping out of a new building. Here they say it with lion dancers. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Aerial view of new Hong Kong. GV oriental building. GV skyscraper. MS pan - scaffolding to erect new building. CU sign Dragon View. TS pan - street to scaffolding. MCU man working on same. TS same. CU men erecting scaffolding (2 shots). TS man sways on scaffolding. GV same. CU scaffolding being tied together. GV pan from spidermen to street below. GV spidermen climb down scaffolding. GV Dragon Dance. CU same. CU Chinese man. GV Dragon Dance. CU woman. MS dragon. CU Pekinese dog. GV skyscrapers. (The scaffolding is still made of bamboo).
- Local distribution only
- Not shown in Scotland
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Engineering
- Locations
- Hong Kong
- Footage sources
- Government of Hong Kong
- Card file number
- 86503
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 135
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