Winter Story

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2117A
Date Released
1 Jan 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News Scene: The Second French Nuclear Submarine - Terrible - is Launched at Cherbourg Not Long before the Five Gunboats Mysteriously Left This Same Port
  2. 2Infofair
  3. 3Rac Trophy
  4. 4Winter Story

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Winter Roundup. DESCRIPTION: A brief look at the ills and thrills of Winter. EUROPE in the grip of some unusually heavy early snow-falls. LAPLAND where the annual reindeer roundup produces all the excitement of a Western in the frozen north. BRITAIN, where influenza continues to reap its miserable harvest of headaches and shivers - where millions are away from work, where hospital staffs are seriously depleted. FRANCE, where the skiing season swings into action and an Australian confounds all expectations and beats the cream of the Continent to win the Men’s Downhill at Val D’Isere. SHOTLIST: Series of shots of snowbound cars. MS lorry stuck in snow, lorry wheel spinning, men pushing lorry. Several shots vehicles stranded in streets. 2 shots snow covered trees and fields. MS pan wheels of lorry, lorry crashed at side of road, lorry with snow plough attachment. MCU pan snow being bulldozed along. GV snow covered landscape, pan herd of reindeer. MS reindeer and sledge. CU reindeer looks for food. MS herdsman throws lasso, reindeer in ropes, pan herdsman being pulled along as he struggles with rope. MS pan reindeers running. LAS herdsmen, reindeers in b/g. MAS pan herdsman trying to capture deer. MCU reindeer herd. MS pan ambulance. GV hospital. MS St. George’s Hospital. MS sign on ambulance Middlesex Hospital. MS pan down emergency bed service chart. GV girls answering calls from victims of flu. 2 shots girls. MS number being dialed, girls on phone. 3 signs South West, South East and Fever, series of shots girls taking phone calls. 4 shots newspaper headlines regarding flu. MS pan competitor No 10 (ladies slalom). Pan No 4 Florence Steuber of France. MS spectators, competitor slides along in snow after fall, pan No 5, ditto looses balance & falls, pan ladies. Pan competitor in mens downhill event, No 9 Bernard Orcel of France starts his run. MS pan No 12 Daniel Detwyler of Switzerland starts his run. TS & GV ditto. MLS pan ditto finishes run. MS pan No 22 Malcolm Milne of Australia starts run. TS ditto, series of top shots of ditto. MLS pan ditto finishes run. MCU Milne. MS ditto on shoulders on others.
Keywords
Mass media; Health and medicine; Weather; Environment; Transport; Communications; Winter sports; Animal husbandry; Accidents and disasters; Animals; Scenery and travel
Locations
France; London; United Kingdom; Brest; Val D’Isere; Lapland
Footage sources
France
Card file number
95466
Credits:
Camera
Gordon Limb
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
350
Story extras:
Film clip

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
AP Archive
Email
info@aparchive.com
Web
http://www.movietone.com
Phone
+44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held
View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 140 times.