All Colour Reel: Hovercraft

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2195A

Date Released

1 Jul 1971

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Section Title

All Colour Reel

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hovercraft. DESCRIPTION: Twenty of Britain’s top Hovercraft experts in Dorset for the second Hovercraft Championships - the setting - the grounds of Sherborne Castle. SHOTLIST: GV lake & castle at Sherborne Castle. LV through trees - Sherborne Castle. SV man putting on crash helmet. another man putting on crash helmet. GV competitors preparing hovercrafts. CU name wind sock Hoverclub. SV starting up No 24 Humbug. SV No 2 Guinea Pig lifts up on its skirt & then drops down. SV pan No 47 Cyclone starts off and drives off into lake. CU pan No 47 at speed along lake. LV pan as No 47 drives off lake onto firm ground. SV pan No 46 moving off to the start. BV as No 2 Guinea Pig drives down and into lake. CU pan No 24 Humbug drives down and into lake. LV pan No 36 Aerostyle drives down and into lake. CU pan No 36 at speed along lake. CU pan No 19 KB 1 at speed along lake. LV No 10 in b/g & No 27 on right of picture churning up grass as it moves to the starting line. SV crowd watching. BV as No 27 drives into lake. SV another hovercraft driving from water onto land. CU 2 little boys watching. GV off the lake with hovercraft passing from L to R. LV hovercraft No 26 Yellow Peril towards camera on lake. SV pan No 26 travelling along lake. Gv pan as another hovercraft drives off the lake onto ground, watched by crowds.

Keywords

Vehicles; Competitions; Transport

Locations

Dorset; Sherborne

Card file number

97248

Credits:

Camera: Denis White
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

185

Story extras:

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