News Scene: Fourteen Pups ... Warragamba Game Park ... Austrian Tyrol Postman ... Tame Chamois ... Poland’s Only Sauna .. 40cm of Ice [in East Germany] ... Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2120A

Date Released

22 Jan 1970

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Light Show
2. 2Commonwealth Pool
3. 3News Scene: Fourteen Pups ... Warragamba Game Park ... Austrian Tyrol Postman ... Tame Chamois ... Poland’s Only Sauna .. 40cm of Ice [in East Germany] ... Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Section Title

News Scene

Summary

FULL TITLE: A Litter of Fourteen Live Labrador Pups Produced by Australia’s Champion Labrador Lindhills Bob Beck. The Puppies with Their Proud Parents and Admiring Humans. A New Attraction at the Warragamba Game Park in New South Wales. The Public Introduced to Six Lion Cubs, and the New Arrivals Learn Table Manners. In the Austrian Tyrol Postman Conrad Tauber and His Horse Liesl Get the Mail Through to Farmers. The Owner of a Restaurant Near Chamonix, France, Keeps Mountain Deer, Chamois, Wild Sheep and Other Animals in a Natural Reserve. A Completely Tame Chamois Kept as a Household Pet and Other Animals Show No Fear of Humans. Poland’s Only Sauna Bath at Lodz. Customers Have Steam Bath, Run in Snow and Plunge into Ice Waters. East Germany Keeps Its River Transport Flowing Despite 40 Centimetres of Ice. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Threatened by Giant Starfish Known as the Crown of Thorns Which Eats a Square Foot of Live Coral Each Day. MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News Scene. SHOTLIST: LABRADOR PUPS MS girl with 2 labradors & pups. CU labrador. MS girl with labradors. CU puppy. MCU puppy being fed by bottle. MCU labrador wearing sun hat & glasses. TS puppies floating on an airbed in a pool. MCU labrador in hat & glasses. MS pups on airbed. TIGER CUBS MS tiger cubs. MCU ditto. CU pup. MS through chicken wire of sightseers. MS mother lioness. MS cub feeding from soup bowl. MCU & CU of ditto. HORSE POSTMAN LS postman approaching house on mountainside. M shots postman leads horse down slope, feet of horse & postman, old man of the house, postman gives man a parcel. MCU man gives postman a drink, pan up with postman’s face as he drinks. CU postman. MCU man gives sugar lumps to horse. CHAMONIX RESERVE MS deer standing on snow covered crag. 2 shots deers on forest slopes. MCU through branches of deer. MS mountain goats. MLS pan deer runs through deep snow. MCU deer. MS warden of reserve on skis carrying hay. MS deer amongst trees, warden throws hay into deer’s caves, M shots deer walking up to cave, deer eating hay. Pan deer walking through warden’s living room, 2 other deers look through door, warden walks up and coaxes deer who is lying on couch. MCU deer outside being fed. 2 deers being fed. SAUNA BATH MS man in bathrobe enters into sauna bath. CU hairy chest pan up to owner’s face. MS men relaxing in sauna bath. CU man’s toes, MCU man’s knee, man’s eyes. CU feet, folded arms, crossed legs. MS men run outside into the snow. Shots of men rubbing snow over themselves. MS man jumps into freezing water. HAS man swimming. ICE BREAKING TS of ice from ice-breaking ship. TS engine, ice being broken, MCU tappets of engine. GV barges. CU seamen. GV pan barges, 2 shots broken ice flowing along in water. MS bows of ship through ice, MS ship in ice. GV ice flowing past. CORAL EATERS Aerial shots of Pacific island. MS sea creatures (coral?) pan down as man dives below waters surface. 2 CUs of Crown of Thorns starfish. MS diver swims to surface with ditto. CU zoom out starfish lying on beach. MCU diver prepares giant syringe. MS diver jumps overboard. Series of shots diver injecting starfish to kill them.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Health and medicine; Food and cooking; Environment; Curiosities; Postal services; Birds; Animals

Locations

France; Germany; Australia; Chamonix; Poland; Bayreuth; Terry Hills; Lodz; Koenigwusterhausen; Barrier Reef; Austria

Footage sources

Australia
France

Card file number

95526

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

449

Story extras:

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