Learning on ScreenFrozen Assets!
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Frozen Assets!. DESCRIPTION: On the outskirts of Quebec in Canada is the largest manufacturer of ice skates in the world. They use 60 tons of steel to produce 40,000 pairs of skates a week. The skates are assembled by spot-welding, riveting and silver brazing. This factory started in 1950 and today is the leading world producer - two million pairs every year. SHOTLIST: GV people skating. CU ice blade and boot. CU blade. MS steel being fed off a machine. CU woman operating spot welding machine. Spot welding machine in action. MS skates blades being dipped in bath. CU bath operator. CU pan blades being withdrawn from bath. CU blades being dipped in a cooling bath. CU blades in a machine. MS man operating machine. MS man riveting blades to boots. MS man taking blades off moving belt. CU man setting blades up. CU man working on blade. CU man above. CU machine hotting blades. CU man on machine. CU man sharpening blades. CU blades hanging on a moving conveyor. MS girl skating. MCU ditto. MS pan two girls skating together. MS monkey holding on a rope being twisted around on the ice. MS spot lights following monkey. MS girl and monkey skating.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- Quebec; Canada
- Footage sources
- National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 89414
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 180
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