Opera House

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2249

Date Released

10 Jul 1972

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Motor Museum
2. 2Model Planes
3. 3Queen in Glasgow
4. 4Opera House
5. 5Polish Fire Brigade

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Opera House. DESCRIPTION: At last, Sydney Opera House is nearly complete, that is, except for 1 1/2 acres of special glass from France. SHOTLIST: SV zoom back to GV Sydney Opera House. GV interior almost completed Opera House. SV two men manoeuvring sheet of glass into position for cutting & bevel. SV machine operator shaping glass. CU cutter shaping glass. CU operator. CU cutter pull back to SV machine being adjusted for bevelling glass. CU grinding wheel starting up. SV glass being bevelled. SV sheets of glass being hoisted by crane. GV angle shot scaffolding round Opera House. CU zoom back glass being positioned. Angle shot from inside Opera House through window, two men fixing glass. SV interior pan round new windows to boat going past in harbour through window. CU interior new window pull back to SV men working on windows. GV new Opera House.

Keywords

Buildings and structures

Locations

Sydney; Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

98264

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

120

Story extras:

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