Bridge That Gap

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1863

Date Released

15 Feb 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bridge That Gap. DESCRIPTION: Territorials of the Royal Engineers and the RASC have been building a bridge across the River Weaver in Cheshire, to transport 2 giant transformers from the factory to a new transformer station. Two of the largest motor transporters in Europe were used to carry the 160 ton transformers. SHOTLIST: Medium shot of Terriers marching past the camera. GV bridge building site. MS section of the bridge. CU bridge sliding on rail, into position. GV bridge building site. MS officer standing on the bridge giving instructions. CU bridge support being slid into clamp. MS crane lifting a section of bridge into position. MCU soldier driving home pins with a sledge hammer. MS soldiers lift a girder into position. MS soldier raising bridge by jacking it up. Completed bridge. Transformer on trailer. CU wheels of lorry as it moves off. MCU wheels of lorry as it moves onto the bridge. MS lorry moving across bridge. CU lorry wheels as it moves across the bridge. GV bridge with lorry moving across.

Keywords

Engineering; Military

Locations

Frodsham

Card file number

89358

Credits:

Camera: Keith Medley
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name: AP Archive
Email: info@aparchive.com
Web: http://www.movietone.com
Phone: +44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held: View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 199 times.