New Way to Water-Ski
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Way to Water-Ski. DESCRIPTION: Here’s the answer for water skiers who want to go it alone, a 6-foot tow-craft, controlled by the skier himself, and capable of towing him at any speed up to 28 miles an hour. It was demonstrated for us at a water ski club in Hertfordshire. SHOTLIST: Key scene. TS 2 skiers look at new towcraft (Wankel rotary engine). CU towcraft. CU controls. MS skier towed by craft. MS 2 skiers being towed. TS one skier being towed. MLS skier on tow into shore. MS 3 skiers pull away from bank. TS skier pulled by towcraft (2 shots).
- Keywords
- Sport; Entertainment and leisure; Water sports; Inventions and discoveries
- Locations
- Hertfordshire; Ware
- Card file number
- 88339
- Credits:
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- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 96
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