Grease Opening Night

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2300

Date Released

2 Jul 1973

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Grease Opening Night
2. 2Rock and Roll Dancing
3. 3National Hunter Show
4. 4Drought in Africa
5. 5News in Colour: India Fights Drought
6. *News in Colour: De Valera Retires
7. *News in Colour: Presidential Election

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grease Opening Night. DESCRIPTION: The new rock musical opens in London reviving the rock era of twenty years ago. SHOTLIST: GV London Theatre for the opening night of Grease. SV American producer Bernard Jay arriving. GV Bernard Delfont’s Rolls Royce arriving. SV press photographers. SCU Delfont talking to Jay. SV Billy Fury signing autographs. SV Peggy Mount walking towards camera. SV photographer. SV pan Ned Sherrin arriving. LV crowd outside theatre. SV personalities up escalator. SV pan Britt Ekland coming off escalator with man. SV Ekland. SCU David Frost talking to girl. SV Eartha Kitt toasts success to Jay. SV Richard Todd with woman and David Langdon. SV DJ Rosko with Lindsey de Paul. SV Langdon talking to Richard Gere star of the show. GV party in full swing, people dancing. SCU Jackie Pallo dancing with girl. GV people dancing.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure

Locations

London

Card file number

99201

Credits:

Camera

David Allan

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

119

Story extras:

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