The Friendly Giants

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1876

Date Released

17 May 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Friendly Giants. DESCRIPTION: On show at an International Exhibition of Construction Engineering, in London, were some of the latest machines for digging and delving. SHOTLIST: GV construction equipment exhibition. LS Muir Hill Bog Tractor Shovel at work. MS sign World’s largest Delva Grab diameter 60 inches. Pan down to grab. MS Delva Grab. MLS Africans looking. LS Britain’s largest hydraulic excavator. MS shovel digging. LS excavator swings round and empties earth from shovel into truck. MLS vacuum lifter at work lifting slab. MS people watching. MLS the world’s largest roller the Dynapac CT 60. MS pan ditto. LAS monorail system for use on construction sites. LAS ditto. MS ditto. LS ditto. GV exhibition.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

London

Card file number

89696

Credits:

Camera: John Mould
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

135

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