Presenting: Review of the Year

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British Movietone News

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Issue No.

2274

Date Released

1 Jan 1973

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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of the Year. DESCRIPTION: Movietone looks back over the past 12 months, highlights the dramas, the achievements, the tragedies, the happiness - just some of the important events of 1972Please note:. Our next issue will contain highlights of Sporting Events of 1972. SHOTLIST: REEL 1 [179 Seconds] GV interior delegates at Common Market signing in Brussels. SV ditto including Harold Macmillan. SV Edward Heath walks up steps and girl throws ink over him, pan with girl as she is hustled away. SLV pan Heath led away to change. GV delegates in hall. SLV Heath signing. SV (3) press photographers round Pearce Commission in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]. SV group of Africans watching. SV African chief talking to Commissioners. CU African woman with baby. SLV interior Richard Nixon talking with Chairman Mao (China). CU Mao, pan to Nixon. SV 2 men shake hands. LV British troops head quarters in Malta. GV British warship in Valletta harbour. SLV British families boarding plane leaving Malta. GV exterior Lancaster House. SV interior Dom Mintoff and Lord Carrington signing treaty. CU Mintoff. GV pan down pit-head. SV miners picket. CU notice Dangerous Job take home money £15.00 a week. SCU pan round sacks of coal on lorry. GV Battersea Power Station across river. SV pickets outside power station. SCU power worker reading heading Miners Turn The Screw, Misery Million. GV employment exchange. SV Employment Exchange over door. CU newspaper headlines 1,023,583 Shameful Misery Million, Heath’s Darkest Day full CU headline 1,023,583 Shameful. GV Upper Clyde shipyard. GV ship in dock. SV workers coming out of yard. SV pan majorettes and band on St Patrick’s Day Parade in Ireland. SV Eamon de Valera talking to Hubert Humphrey. SV Charlie Chaplin and wife Oona at film awards [Academy Awards] in Los Angeles. GV film awards [Oscars]. SV Chaplin and wife. GV St Mark’s Square in Venice. SV Pope walking through crowd on raised walk in Square. CU newspaper headlines Pilot Prince Dies, BCU headline Pilot Prince Dies In Crash. SV Prince William of Gloucester. GV exterior crowds queuing to enter St George’s Chapel, Windsor, to pay last respects to Duke of Windsor. SLV interior coffin with guard of honour in chapel. CU flowers on coffin. SV lying in state. CU crucifix. GV Gipsy Moth IV moored at end of pier in harbour. SV bow of Gipsy Moth IV and name. SV pan Francis Chichester being knighted. Pan ex-president Harry Truman. driving past in car. CU crowds cheering. CU Truman at mike. REEL II [ 132 Seconds] - GAV Queen Elizabeth at sea. Ditto Elizabeth ablaze in Hong Kong harbour. SV pan cross channel hovercraft starts away from beach into sea. SLV salvage operation on site of crashed hovercraft. SV divers preparing on boat. SLV divers go into sea over side of boat. SCU divers life line. GV train wreckage at Eltham. GV wreckage of airliner near Heathrow. SV zoom back showing rescue workers. GV wreckage lit with floodlights. AS section of road bridge over river Loddon near Reading. Pan to wreckage of collapsed section. GV pan rescue workers sorting through wreckage. SV police helicopter flying over Olympic village in Munich. GV Israeli quarters. Zoom in to policeman in track suit on roof. SV German police round building. SLV policeman in track suit climbing over roof. CU photographer. LV pan from police at wrecked helicopter at airport where Arab terrorists and Israeli hostages were killed. GTV Olympic stadium. SV Jewish athletes at memorial service in stadium. CU Jewish girl crying. SV flags (including Israeli) at half mast. SV 100 year old Rupert Koch and 77 year old Magdalena Klein at their wedding at Grassau in Bavaria. CUs Koch and Klein. CU priest attempts to place ring on Rupert’s finger. SCU pan up bunny girls at wedding in Kingston. SV bunny bride and Mr Jenkins, groom, leave church through bunny girl guard of honour. SV Georgie Fame and Marchioness of Londonderry leaving Marylebone Registry Office after their wedding surrounded by press photographers. CU as they get into car. GV crowds and press outside Caxton Hall for Tony Blackburn wedding. SV Blackburn and wife, Tessa Wyatt on steps of Caxton Hall surrounded by press. SV French pretender and newly wed wife in garden. SCU ditto (Prince Thibaud D’Orleans & Marion Gordon Orr). REEL III [ 239 Seconds] GV Ugandan Asians arriving at Stansted Airport. SV Asian families walking across tarmac. SV sign at Victoria Station Farewell To The Brighton Belle On Her Last Day Of Public Service. 2 SVs passengers dancing on platform. Pan Brighton Belle leaves Victoria for last run. SV interior steward serving food to large bearded passenger. SV pan British Rail’s advanced passenger train on trial run, towards French turbo train at speed. TS through carriage GAV turbo train running through countryside. SLV airship Europa zoom in cabin at Cardington. SV interior pilot at controls. GAV over London. SFV airship Europa. 2 GVs Concorde landing in Australia, pan Lockheed Tristar taking off at Luton airport. SV interior passengers in 400 seater Tristar. SLV pan pair of ospreys fly back to nest in Scotland. SV man pedalling flying machine preparing for flight. LV pan as he attempts to take off in multi winged plane, wings collapse. LV towards man pedalling bicycle with wings attached along runway, he veers into another cyclist who falls to ground to avoid wing of flying machine. LV towards and an man powered aircraft flying just above runway at RAF Bensen. CU smashed wheel of plane after crash. SV pilot astride wrecked plane pan down to buckled wheel. SV pan man jumps off platform into sea holding large kite and Birdman Rally at Selsey Hill. LV towards Bill Bonney flies down mountainside on large kite, pan as he lands on skis in French Alpine village. GV planes fly over Jersey dropping paper petals on crowds during battle of flowers. GV petals falling on crowd. SV pan petals falling. SV petals coming down on crowd. CU zoom in Golden Death Mask of Tutankhamen. SV astronauts moving around lunar surface during Apollo 17 mission. SV astronaut banging core tube into ground. SV as he looks at samples in tube. CU as he turns end of tube to camera to show samples. SV two astronauts looking at core tube. GV lunar surface. LV lunar module blasts off from moon. LV capsule coming down on parachutes. TV from helicopter ditto splashes down in sea. SLV capsule floating in sea. SV 3 astronauts aboard ship. SCU commander on mission Eugene Gernan, making speech aboard ship. GV moon from Earth.

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Review of the Year

Card file number

98753A

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

824

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