All Colour Reel: Via Moscow to Tokyo

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2141A

Date Released

18 Jun 1970

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Section Title

All Colour Reel

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Via Moscow to Tokyo Colour. DESCRIPTION: BOAC introduce a twice weekly service from London to Tokyo via Russia. The new Trans-Siberian route cuts three and a half hours off the previous journey over the North Pole. Movietone joins the inaugural flight. SHOTLIST: GV traffic into tunnel at London Airport. SV sign over steps leading to plane. Inaugural Flight etc. SV interior passengers with baggage. SV sign Inaugural Flight. LV passengers check in, pan down to baggage. CU 2 Japanese air hostesses at foot of steps. SV passengers board plane - hostesses bowing. SCU pan Movietone cameraman (Smith) up steps. CU control tower. GV (shot from interior) taxiing. GV aircraft takes off. Air to Air clouds. GV ditto. SV interior 2 journalists typing. GV from window - flying over coastline. GV interior passengers seated & Japanese air hostess. CU serving food to passengers. SV pilot & navigator. SV pilot. Shot from window - sunrise. Shot from window ditto with wing. SV pilot & co-pilot. Shot from window - landing at Tokyo. GV airport building. CU clock at 0850. SV Japanese family watch. SV passengers disembark pan to welcome sign. SV passengers disembark past hostesses. GV aircraft & passengers. SV zoom back Japanese garden. LV pagoda & flower garden. CU flowers. Top view children catch water in mugs. SV ditto. GV Japanese rock garden & swans. CU swan. GV Japanese type house. Hong Kong and Tokyo Stock Shots - 35mm Colour Roll A - Colour Neg 285ft. Can 08413 Various shots of neon signs and traffic (traffic out of speed). Ferry boat moves across harbour. Junks. Ferry boat across harbour. Waterfront buildings shot from sea. Elevated shots of buildings - from most angles. Roll B Colour Neg & B/W Print 08414 227ft. Can 08413 Various shots of types of people walking into camera. CU children. Man working in fields with latest hand plough. Roll C Colour Neg 70ft Can 08414 Various shots of traffic on the move into camera. Roll D Colour Neg 470ft Can 08413 Interior shots of Wig Making factory. This factory has been covered from all angles. Good shots of people making wigs etc. Roll E Colour Neg 370ft Can 08413 Various coloured neon lights flashing. Clock changing time. Exterior of Tokyo Airport and sign. Various interiors of people walking about. Roll F Colour Neg 400ft Can 08414 Japanese countryside shot from the famous Bullet train - countryside flashing by. Interior of driver’s cab - speedometer. Bullet train slowly into station. People alight. Expo ‘70 workers. Scenic shots - lake and tea house. Types of people walking into camera. Scenic shots. Tea house. School children on day out.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Mass media; Ships and boats; Aviation; Agriculture; Railways; Business and commerce; Horticulture; Industry and manufacture; Ceremonies; Birds; Animals; Cameramen; Scenery and travel; Newsreels

Locations

London; Tokyo

Card file number

96029

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

182

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