Stones & Bridges

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2175
Date Released
8 Feb 1971
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Rolls Royce Collapse
  2. 2Concorde Test Rig
  3. 3French Buses
  4. 4Stones & Bridges
  5. 5Surf Master
  6. 6Barefoot Skiing

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stones & Bridges. DESCRIPTION: If you can’t get blood from a stone, you can still do a lot with it. Stonex - the industry’s exhibition at Olympia shows just how much. A contractor who bought a load of ballast on spec and found it was part of the old Waterloo Bridge wonders how much he’ll get for it. The Americans paid over a million for the old London Bridge and they’re diverting the Colorado River to flow under it. Some diversion. Meanwhile the new 4 1/2 Million pound London Bridge nears completion. SHOTLIST: GV interior stones exhibition at Olympia. LV slabs of Italian marble in 2 rows. Angle shot (2 scenes) types of marble. CU working templates for House of Lords windows pan to man chiselling Malta stone. CU chiselling stone. CU man doing same. LV man operating core drill through marble. CU drill through marble. SV rings made from Portuguese granite. CU ditto, GV zoom back to dinosaur’s footprint to stand & plaque. SV various blocks of stone on stand. GV pile of stones from old Waterloo Bridge in field. LV piles of stone. CU stones stacked up. GV large bulldozer moves stones. GV still shot Old Waterloo Bridge. GV still shot boats on Thames. GV still grand opening Waterloo Bridge 1817 - GV still pan ditto. GV Old Waterloo Bridge. GV still photograph of bridge being dismantled. GV new Waterloo Bridge to foggy weather. LV & SV ditto. CU underneath bridge. SV pan from Thames to traffic over new bridge. GV traffic crossing London Bridge still under construction. CU girder sections on bridge pan to section on floating pontoon. SV man welding girder. SV fork lift carrier stacks old blocks of stone. SV large blocks on fork lift. Angle shot pan blocks of stone stacked showing numbers. 3 LVs showing side of new bridge with polished stone sections. Partly completed bridge. LV London Bridge still under construction.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Industry and manufacture; Ceremonies; Engineering; History and archaeology; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
London; United Kingdom
Card file number
96732
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Reginald William Smith
Length of story (in feet)
186
Story extras:
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