Cold Comfort

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1865A

Date Released

4 Mar 1965

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Rugby - Ireland Trounce Scotland
2. 2England Defeat France
3. 3Front Line of Fashion
4. 4Cold Comfort
5. 5Miss England
6. *State Funeral

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cold Comfort. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show Bavaria at the end of their carnival season. They have a mobile snow melting machine which turns the snow back into water. In North West Siberia are the reindeer breeders. These people follow the herds which provide them with food, clothing and transport. SHOTLIST: GV the village. MS men playing in the snow. MS pan down man turns somersault into snow. Pan up to the second man doing same. MS ditto one man. MS crowd laughing. MS man turning somersault into snow. MS snow being dumped into snow-melting machine. MS ditto. MS snow being melted inside machine. MS machine pumping melted snow down the drain. MS Siberians walking through blizzard. MS Siberian entering tent. CU reindeer digging in snow. LS pan reindeer herd. CU Siberian driving sledge. MS sledge being driven past reindeer herd.

Keywords

Weather; Agriculture; Science and technology; Animal husbandry

Locations

Germany; Soviet Union; Bavaria

Footage sources

Germany
Soviet

Card file number

89428

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

89

Story extras:

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