Wedding of the Year

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2228
Date Released
14 Feb 1972
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Miners Strike
  2. 2Robin Hood
  3. 3Valentine Cards
  4. 4Wedding of the Year
  5. 5Baby Camel
  6. 6Fire Prevention
  7. 7Furniture Exhibition

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wedding of the Year. DESCRIPTION: For the Bavarian village of Grassau a unique occasion. A wedding, but one in a hundred. Magdalena Klein is 77 but her bridegroom Rupert Koch is one hundred. They met in an old people’s home and both have been married before. SHOTLIST: GV couple in church. CU old man Rupert Koch. MS clergyman pan down to dish on altar with rings in. CU dish. CU old woman Magdalena Klein. MCU clergyman gives ring to Koch. CU pan up Rupert as he puts ring on Magdalena’s finger. CU pan up they hold hands and clergyman blesses them. MS 100 written in flowers on edge of stage pan up to musicians on stage. MS old man presented with pipe. MS old man smoking pipe and waving.
Keywords
Social events; Older people; Marriages
Locations
Germany; Bavaria
Footage sources
France
Card file number
97891
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
65
Story extras:
Film clip

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