International Balloon Week
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: International Balloon Week. DESCRIPTION: To Switzerland for the International Balloon Week and a look at a team from Canada in their bid to smash the World’s altitude record with a long flight over the Berne Alps. SHOTLIST: GV balloon prepared. SV men laying out fabric. SV gas cylinders on truck pan following pipe to balloon being filled. SV 2 men carry basket. SV man hanging sandbags onto ropes. CU sandbag into basket. CU shovel into sand. LV balloon now filled making preparations. Aerial shot looking up to balloon. Oxygen into basket. SV final farewell - pan up to balloon. GV as balloon rises with mountains in b/g snow capped Berne. GV from balloon to valley. GV pan as balloon flies over. LV from balloon - of Alps. SV pan snow capped Alps. GV of Alps and balloon overhead. CU balloon overhead. GV Alps and balloon and peak.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Competitions
- Locations
- Switzerland
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 97259
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 135
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