Learning on ScreenNews in Colour: The Kennet and Avon Canal
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Section Title
- News in Colour
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Kennet and Avon Canal - News in Colour. DESCRIPTION: The re-opening of Wooton Rivers lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the ‘steaming’ of the Crofton Pumps. SHOTLIST: SV from bank through bridge to disused lock. Zoom out SV sign on bridge. SV shot from bridge looking down into disused lock. CU water in lock pan up and zoom out to rotten wood on lock gates. SV from edge of lock - the disused lock at Little Bedwyn. SV restored lock gates & lock. CU winch mechanism for letting water through lock. SV shot from boat going towards new lock, boats moored either side, crowds on bridge. SV shot from boat pan down from bridge to lock gates. SV boat in lock and lock fills up. SV crowds on bridge watching. SV Miss Diana Kendall cuts tape to open the new lock at Wooten Rivers pan to crowd watching. SV crowds watching. SV lock gates open. SB from boat in lock, boats with masses of canoes round them, zoom out to LV. SV sign Crofton Pumping Station. GV ditto. SV two men walking over bridge to get into pumping station. SV chimney stack. SV largest pump and oldest working pump man walks over and opens coal stoking hole. GV 2 thermometers alongside each other. SV man shovelling coal into boiler. CU pressure gauge. SV 3 children across gangway on left a pump in operation. SV lower floor shot upwards pump in operation. CU pump mechanics pan round to main pump in operation. CU main pump in operation. SV swinging arm pump up and down. CU pump. SV boiler in operation with smoke blowing out of exhaust, children watching. CU smoke blowing out of exhaust. CU vacuum brake gauge. CU 2 men watching boiler. CU XXXXX gear in operation. SV water outlet. CU ditto opens and lets water out. SV water outlet canal from pumping station. SV boat with motorised paddles each side zoom out to LV. SV shot from bridge mass of boats and crowds. SV TS from boat of two men and one woman taking photographs. SV rear shot of bank and paddle type boat following. SV pan boats moored on bank. SV pan up from rushes to paddle type boat passing by.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Transport
- Locations
- United Kingdom
- Card file number
- 99165
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 266
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