Sea Bag Race

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2209

Date Released

4 Oct 1971

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Festival of Light
2. 2Croquet Finals
3. 3Kangaroos Invade Golf Course
4. 4Sea Bag Race
5. 5Colour: Congo

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sea Bag Race. DESCRIPTION: In Berlin, an inflated sea bag race took place recently. SHOTLIST: SV man with rubber tube putting air into plastic sea bag. Shot from inside bag of boys outside watching. SV unzipping bag & man steps inside. CU 2 boys watching. SV man blowing up plastic bags. GV crowd watching. SV man standing on 2 motor boats watching. GV as 5 blown up plastic bags with a man in each treading bags into river. SV as men in bags cross river. LV large group of swans. SV man falls down inside bag, gets up again & continues to tread water. LV crowd on bank watching. GV as they continue to cross river. LV men treading water on their hands and knees. LV returning to bank. CU as man falls down in plastic bag, gets up again and struggles to get near bank. CU man in bag on bank. SV man sweating after getting out of bag.

Keywords

Competitions

Locations

Germany; Berlin

Footage sources

France

Card file number

97516

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

138

Story extras:

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