Cathedral in Concrete

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1797A

Date Released

14 Nov 1963

Date submitted

9 Nov 1963

Date submitted

8 Nov 1963

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cathedral in Concrete. DESCRIPTION: An impression of Liverpool’s new Roman Catholic Cathedral - sixteen flying buttresses supporting a cone shaped structure which will tower three hundred feet above the city. Reinforced concrete is the chief building material for this Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and already 300 tons of steel have been used. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU picture of finished cathedral. GV scaffolding. MCU man looking through theodolite. GV pan up scaffolding. CU man working on same. LAS men working on same. CU another. MS men working on scaffolding. CU gravel shifter. CU man directing crane. CU bucket. CU ropes hooked to crane. GV section of scaffolding erected. CU man directing operations. GV site of new cathedral.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Engineering

Locations

Liverpool

Card file number

87522

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: Keith Medley

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