Stuntmen

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2227
Date Released
7 Feb 1972
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Protest March
  2. 2Embassy Burnt
  3. 3Men’s Fashions
  4. 4Viareggio Carnival
  5. 5Stuntmen
  6. *Marineland Tragedy
  7. *Car Shredder

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stuntmen. DESCRIPTION: The things that stuntmen will do for a living! Jump off hotel balconies, crash cars, go through windows (when they’re shut) and crash railway engines. SHOTLIST: M back S stuntman leaps out of window. LS pan down as he leaps into water, he hits water at 4’. LS man jumping off bridge into river, he hits water at 15’ angle shot tall building. Angle shot building, man standing on balcony. MS people looking at him. LS pan down, he jumps & misses soft landing pad. MS he is carried away. Pan down building to MCU of injured man lying on ground. MS car crashes through barrier. MS car speeds down street. MLS car drives through doorway. MS car crashes out through window. MS pan as car drives up ramp and crashes down on row of other cars. MS man rolling from side to side in road as cars drive past. MLS towards man rolling across field in large tyre. LS pan he rolls down slope into sea. MS man lowers himself into box. MS box - it blows up and and man rolls on ground. MS pan two men fired from cannon, and land in safety net. LS pan aircraft flies under bridge over river. GV crowds watching tram along track. MS man jumps off train. MS two trains about to collide. CU front of engine. MLS two trains collide and burst into flames.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Stunts
Locations
Sydney; Australia
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
97861
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
137
Story extras:
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