Schooner Anticipates Launch!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1900A
Date Released
4 Nov 1965
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Time to Reconsider
  2. 2Trouble at the Front
  3. 3High Speed Gas Main
  4. 4Vietnam - Ordeal of Plei Me
  5. 5Schooner Anticipates Launch!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Schooner Anticipates Launch!. DESCRIPTION: Gales of hurricane force have been sweeping the country, leaving a trail of destruction and death. Not surprisingly, the high winds were thought to have caused the sail training schooner Sir Winston Churchill to break away on her slipway at Hessle near Hull. Four days before the accident Movietone filmed the schooner when her masts were being stepped. The launch has now been postponed for about two months. SHOTLIST: GV huge waves breaking on a dockside. GV ditto. MS huge waves breaking on seafront. GV ditto. MS ditto. GV schooner on her side. GV ditto. MS ditto. MS fitting deck of the schooner. MS pan along deck of schooner. MCU broken mast. MS bow of schooner as she lays on her side. MS figurehead and bowspite. MS schooner on her side. Optical 9 frames only. GV schooner before the storm. MS masts. MCU Captain Glyn Griffiths. MS shipyard workmen helping to position the mast. MS two yard workmen pulling on a rope. MLS stern of schooner. MCU hole in the deck where the mast will rest. MS shipyard workers position the mast above the hole. MS mast being slipped into its hole (stepped). MCU ditto. MS pan up ditto. MLS crane driver sitting in cab of his crane. MS crane raising one of the masts. MCU Captain Griffiths holding a Churchill crown. MCU Captain Griffiths places the crown beneath mast fixing. MS ditto. MCU mast coming through hole in the deck. LAS crane lowering the mast. CU mast being guided into its fixing. MS shipyard workers guiding mast on deck. CU mast in its fixing. MCU shipyard workers pulling on ropes. LAS shipyard worker going up the mast. GV schooner with all mast’s stepped before the storm. Optical 8 frames only. GV schooner laying on her side with broken mast.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Weather; Accidents and disasters
Locations
Kingston-upon-Hull; Hessle
Card file number
90372
Credits:
Camera
Jackson
Camera
Keith Medley
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
171
Story extras:
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