New Rig for Victory

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1833

Date Released

20 Jul 1964

Date submitted

16 Jul 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1New Centre for Sport
2. 2Awards for Youth
3. 3Laying the Ghost
4. 4New Rig for Victory
5. 5He’s Done It

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Rig for Victory. DESCRIPTION: The re-rigging of Nelson’s Victory is complete. Work started last October, and since then 34 miles of Italian hemp, 3 tons of spun yarn, 300 yards of canvas and over 200 gallons of tar have been used. At last the job is done. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LAS Victory. LAS new rigging. CU figure head. LAS men pulling rope. MS pan up sailors climb mast. LAS two sailors watch. LAS sailors walk along. MS sailors get drink of rum. MCU rum poured into mugs. CU sailor drinks rum. MS same. CU same. GV pan down Victory.

Keywords

Ships and boats; History and archaeology

Locations

Portsmouth

Card file number

88606

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Ronald E. Collins

Length of story (in feet)

83

Story extras:

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