Gateway to Wales

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1808A

Date Released

30 Jan 1964

Date submitted

24 Jan 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Some Giants Are Not for Killing
2. 2Gateway to Wales
3. 3Riding on Air
4. 4Festival of the Tommycod

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gateway to Wales. DESCRIPTION: Perhaps you’ve used the car ferry that crosses the River Severn between Aust near Bristol and Beachley near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. In the Summer its one of the busiest links between the West Country and Wales. But in a few years time, the ferry will have become uneconomic and obsolete. The reason is the slender spiders web of steel nets just been spun across the Severn. Twin catwalks outline the shape of the New Severn Bridge, which will take about three years to complete. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU cars drive onto ferry. CU name Severn Queen. MCU captain on bridge. LS new bridge under construction. LAS bridge as seen from ferry. ES catwalk. ES pan up bridge span. GV men at work. LAS welder. CU cables on rollers. GV men on bridge. LS ferry out at sea. GV bridge of ferry. MS van drives off ferry. CU artist impression of new bridge.

Keywords

Transport; Industry and manufacture; Engineering

Locations

Aust; Beachley

Card file number

87835

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

98

Story extras:

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