Mountain Fliers

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1812

Date Released

24 Feb 1964

Date submitted

16 Feb 1964

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mountain Fliers!. DESCRIPTION: At Oberstdorf in Germany, twelve countries competed in the International Ski Flying contest. Nilo Zandanel of Italy achieved the longest jump ever recorded. One hundred and fifty seven yards. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LAS pan skier over jump. GV pan skier over jump in slow motion. MS pan skier crashes at bottom of jump. GV pan Kjell Sjoeberg (Sweden) over jump. MS same at bottom of jump. GV pan Dalibor Motejlek (CSSR) over jump. GV pan same at bottom of jump. GV pan Nilo Zandanel (Italy) over jump. MS pan same at bottom of jump. GV spectators. CU Zandanel after jump - the longest ever recorded: 157 yards.

Keywords

Sport; Winter sports; Newsreels

Locations

Germany; Oberstdorf

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

87937

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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