Big Blow for Button Boy
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Big Blow for Button Boy. DESCRIPTION: The annual ceremony at HMS Ganges of Mast Manning. This year the Button Boy who balances on the top has thirty mile an hour wind to contend with. SHOTLIST: Key Scene. GV cadets marching on parade ground. LS cadets marching on parade ground. Top shot naval officials watching. GV cadets on window ladder. MS naval officials and parents watching. MCU naval officials and parents watch. LS cadets on window ladder. Top shot people watch. Zoom out cadets climbing mast. LAS cadets climbing mast. GV cadets climbing mast. Top shot cadets watching. LA cadets up mast, button boy in centre of top row. MCU parents of this year’s button boy David Prigmore. Slip pan GV cadets up mast in last year’s mast manning ceremony. MS last year’s button boy Gwyn Charlton up mat. CU Gwyn Charlton up mast. Slip pan. Pan down. From empty top of mast to cadet standing on lower section. GV this year’s cadets up mast. LS cadets coming down mast. MS Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk. MS pan David Prigmore runs to receive crown piece from Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure; Navy; Military; Youth
- Locations
- England; Shotley
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 91390
- Credits:
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- Camera
- John Mould
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 155
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