Royal Tournament

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2093

Date Released

14 Jul 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Count Down Apollo
2. 2Charity Protest
3. 3Hard Lines
4. 4Royal Tournament

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Tournament. DESCRIPTION: The Mounties and Italy’s Bersaglieri feature in this year’s Royal Tournament at Earl’s Court. Skill, thrills and pageantry! SHOTLIST: Armoured Corps. Pan zoom in massed band march into arena and stand to attention. Helicopter. Soldiers climbing mock cliff face. Crews teams of each climber at bottom of cliff. Soldiers erecting frame work. Pan casualty lowered on rope from cliff top. Soldier erecting tent. Soldier escorting casualty away. Man slides down rope in harness. Soldier comes down cliff face in harness. Soldier hangs from rope by foot as he is sliding towards crowd of soldiers. Crowd. Mounties into arena. Ditto (x2). Mounties staff formation. Ditto. Pan Mounties round arena. Mounties pass. Mounties formation canter. Horses legs. Mounties in formation. Crowd. Mounties charge with lances. Crowd. Bersaglieri band run into arena playing trumpets. Band running. Man jumps through flaming loop. Ditto. Pan Royal Corps of transport & navy drive Land Rovers into arena. Navy Land Rover taking off wheel. Crowd. Pan navy change wheel, drive and puncture bollard with bayonets. Crowd. Navy erect fence and drive off. Navy taking ranks off trailer. RCT catch up with Navy. Pan Navy Land Rover over obstacle. Navy beat RCT to finishing line.

Keywords

Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Displays; Aviation; Navy; Animals; Military

Locations

London; United Kingdom

Card file number

94925

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

278

Story extras:

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