Toplitz Treasure Hunt

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1796

Date Released

4 Nov 1963

Date Other

1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Toplitz Treasure Hunt. DESCRIPTION: Lake Toplitz, 2,000 feet up in the Austrian Mountains, the scene of a government-sponsored hunt for Nazi treasure. It was four years ago that we recorded the lowering of television cameras to search for counterfeit notes and printing plates - and that search brought fantastic results. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV Lake Toplitz. MLS raft out on lake. MS same. MS pressmen. CU pressmens’ cameras. MS man looking from bank (optical bridge). MS searchers lowering instrument into sea on previous search. MCU man watching television screen. CU counterfeit bank notes on screen. MS diver breaks surface. MS same hands some notes to another. MCU same. MCU notes in boxes. CU same. CU £5 pound notes (optical bridge). MS searchers on raft during present search. MLS pan man swimming in lake. GV lake.

Keywords

Mass media; Environment; Economics; Crime

Locations

Lake Toplitz; Austria

Footage sources

Germany
Library

Card file number

87475

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

107

Story extras:

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