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:

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