Hydro Power Station

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2241

Date Released

15 May 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hydro Power Station. DESCRIPTION: In the Wicklow Mountains, site for Eire’s largest Civil Engineering Project - a pumped storage hydro electric station, to be completed in 1974. SHOTLIST: GV pan Turlough Hill pump storage hydro power station & reservoir. LS men walking along top of reservoir pan to GV reservoir & construction work being carried out on reservoir and new power station. GV pan round wall of reservoir. LS new power station under construction. MCU map of new reservoir & power station scheme. GTV interior construction work in progress inside mountain cavern for turbine generators (reinforcing etc). TV engineers working from scaffolding on reinforcing. STV men working on turbine generators. SV pan mass on reinforced concrete. GV exterior lower lake under construction. GV zoom into electric pylons being constructed.

Keywords

Science and technology

Locations

Republic of Ireland; Wicklow Mountains

Card file number

98095

Credits:

Camera: George Fleishchmann
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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