Shipshape

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1961A
Date Released
5 Jan 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Motor Racing’s Child’s Play!
  2. 2Slop Could Be Pop!
  3. 3Tractor Driver is Miss France
  4. 4Shipshape

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Shipshape’. DESCRIPTION: The Boat Show at Earls Court offers a greater variety of boats than ever before. Movietone reviews some of them for the benefit of armchair sailors, eagerly waiting to get afloat. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Fade title to aerial shot RYS Centurion at sea. CU name Centurion on stern of model boat at show. MS model of Centurion showing decks. MS sea cadet adjusts rigging on model. GV boats on display at International Boat Show. LS pan show. MS the bows of Yolande II the largest boat at show. MS people sitting in cabin on Yolande II. MS pan deck of Yolande II (x2). CU sign The Romany 8ft Sailcat. MS the Romany Sailcat on display. MS scouts assemble raft. CU scout. MS scouts assembling raft. MS Air Vice-Marshal Jacksfield sails finished raft on lake. MS girl pulls up sides of collapsible dinghy around her. MS man making boat pan to finished Busy Bee 8 Motor Boat. MS Do-It-Yourself single seater Express Air Rider Hovercraft. GV Hi-foil on River Thames. CU name Hi-foil on side of boat at Olympia. CU rudder on Hi-foil. MS the Hi-foil on show. MS pan the Sir Winston Churchill along quayside. MCU the figure head for the Sir Winston Churchill. MS Jack Whitehead carving figure head. CU ditto. MS girl walks away from camera and sits down to comb hair on Polish boat. CU looking into mirror as girl combs hair. LAS sign Fairey Marine Ltd. MLS 26ft. four-berth cabin cruiser from west of Ireland. MLS the Venturer 26’ on show. CU sign Venturer 26. MS pan interior kitchen of Venturer 26. MCU name on side of boat Mirror Offshore. LS the Mirror Offshore diesel yacht. MLS Italian runabout costing £9,000. LS man & woman get into underwater craft from Switzerland. CU name English Rose III on side of rowing boat used by John Ridgeway & Sergeant Blyth. CU photograph of J Ridgeway. CU photograph of Sergeant Blyth. MS the English Rose III on show. LS pan Lady Helmsman under way in Little America’s Cup. MS pan Lady Helmsman on show at Earls Court. GV canal narrow boat on show. MS people sitting inside canal boat. GV Earls Court Boat Show. GV ditto.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Vehicles; Arts and crafts; Transport; Military; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
London; England
Footage sources
Library
Card file number
91935
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
308
Story extras:
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