Water World

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2008
Date Released
27 Nov 1967
Date submitted
21 Nov 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1England Hold Northern Ireland
  2. 2Headline
  3. 3Water World
  4. 4Para-Ski!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Water World. DESCRIPTION: The Mangla Dam - in West Pakistan - the second largest in the World, has just been officially opened. In Sussex, a demonstration of an under-water research vehicle that can descend to a depth of a thousand feet. In the Bristol Channel, the biggest Trimaran in Europe is launched before sailing to West Indies sunshine. SHOTLIST: MS pan water cascading from dam at Mangla. GV swirling water. MS bulldozer at work. GV ditto. LAS bulldozers working at top of cliff. CU Pakistan Surveyor. GV pan machinery on site of dam. MCU waiting women. MCU Pakistan’s playing money to villager. Top shot buses move off carrying villager to new town. MS ditto. MLS bulldozer at work blocking river. CU rubble pushed into river. GV flooded land. GV new dam at Mangla. MS pan ditto. GV pan ditto. MS man enters the SURV. MCU technician giving instructions to the craft via radio. MCU craft submerges. MS ditto. CU interior craft - looking through porthole at diver. MCU interior craft - controls & equipment. MS craft comes to surface. MCU operator at controls on surface. MS craft as it is lifted out of water. LAS ditto. MLS ditto. GV Trimaran on dry land. MS interior cabin-crew talking. MCU pan ditto. Pan down mast of Trimaran. MCU name Takitimu on bows of Trimaran. MS pan Trimaran on trials going up river. Pan to surrounding land. MS sails hoisted. MS members of crew at wheel. GV Trimaran on trials.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Communications; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Launchings
Locations
Bristol; England; Sussex; Pakistan
Footage sources
Pakistan
Card file number
92991
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
248
Story extras:
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