Conservation Year

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2161A
Date Released
5 Nov 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Fire Disaster
  2. 2Jewellery Exhibition
  3. 3Art from Rubbish
  4. 4London Rubbish
  5. 5Conservation Year

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Conservation Year. DESCRIPTION: An attempt to restore the delicate balance of nature which is constantly threatened by man. That’s the aim of European Conservation Year. Movietone takes a world-wide look at the problems facing preservationists - and at the damage that’s already been done. SHOTLIST: Prince Philip on Conservation. Rubbish dumps in Britain. Pacific Glory Disaster. Pollution in Sydney. French children’s ‘Panda’ Club. GV countryside pan to motorway & industrial chimneys. SV industrial chimneys. CU sign 1970 European Conservation Year. SV Prince Philip speaking at meeting. SV pan audience applaud. GV 2 shots Sydney traffic & industrial chimneys. SCU 2 shots smoking chimneys. GV fog over Sydney Harbour (2 shots). GV rubbish along roadside. Travel shot ditto and travel shot abandoned car. LV rubbish being tipped over cliff pan down as it falls to the sea. 2 aerial views Torry Canyon, oil slick on sea. SV exploration submarine underwater. Travel shot of marine life. SV dead gulls floating on water. LV man collecting dead gulls on beach. CU gull is put into sack. GV men fishing off barge in Thames dock area. SCU captured fish. SV Prince Philip talking at lake side, with conservationists. SCU geese walk through grass. LV Prince Philip & party pan to geese. LV geese cross road. LV geese swim in lake. SV sign on classroom wall SOS Nature Panda Club montage sequence children making bird boxes. LV children walk through forest with ladder & bird boxes. LV ladder is put against tree. SV pan as box is passed to boy at the top of the ladder. SCU girls fill bird box with seed. LV boy erects box. SV box erected, children start to leave. SCU pan bird flies to box. LV zoom into owl nesting in a barrel. CU owl. SV owl & young. CU owlet. SCU seals. SV seal slips into water. CU seal eats food. GV mass of seals on rocky beach. GV zoom into LV deer herd grazing. SV man in tree observing. LV deer run across stream. LV 2 deer rest in shade of tree.
Keywords
Education and training; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Children; Weather; Environment; Conferences; Industry and manufacture; Road transport; Birds; Pollution; Fisheries; Accidents and disasters; Animals
Locations
France; Australia; United Kingdom
Footage sources
Various
Card file number
96493
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
317
Story extras:
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