Forth Bridge - Closing the Gap

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1787A

Date Released

5 Sep 1963

Date submitted

2 Sep 1963

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Forth Bridge - Closing the Gap
2. 2Rock Round the Clock
3. 3Variety on the Course
4. 4Enterprise Unlimited
5. 5Up the Pole

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Forth Bridge - Closing the Gap. DESCRIPTION: Just up river from the famous Forth Railway Bridge, the new road bridge is rapidly nearing completion. It’ll be one of the four largest suspension bridges in the world. Two huge cables - spun from 12,000 steel wires will support the road and the heavy traffic that will be using it. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Pan old Forth Bridge to new. LS new Forth Bridge. CU gap in new Forth Bridge. LAS same. TS same. CU cable. TS Bridge. MS roadway across bridge. MS pan down workmen laying roadway. CU same. TS pan workman walking along girders.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Engineering

Locations

Scotland; Firth of Forth

Footage sources

Templar Films

Card file number

87177

Credits:

Camera

Gordon Coull

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

98

Story extras:

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