The Review of the Year

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2326

Date Released

31 Dec 1973

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Review of the Year

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Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of the Year. DESCRIPTION: Movietone Reviews the Major Events of 1973. SHOTLIST: PART 1 (383’) SV (5) torchlight procession (GR 2275) marches past with banners, veteran cars gathered for EEC (GR 2275A). SV man cranking car. Mr Heath flagging car away. SCU sign Maidstone/Folkestone (road sign) below Veteran & Vintage drive into Europe. TS veteran cars along. CU steering wheel of car. SCU driver wearing goggles. SV car towards camera pan to BV. BGV Dover Harbour (GR 2299). SV Dover cliff face. TS man walking down tunnel. CU book channel tunnel agreement No 2 (GR 2320A). SV Mr John Peyton & M Pierre Billecocq signing agreement. CU signatures in book. SV Alec Douglas Home & French Foreign Minister signing. GV London Bridge (GR 2308). SV Pikeman standing. SV Queen unveiling plaque. CU plaque. SV pan Queen with Lord Mayor amongst crowd. BGV New London Bridge. LV (GR 2303A) petrol tanker aground on rocks at Milford Haven, zoom into SLV. SV Bow of tanker pan along sea. LV tanker aground. SV Israeli War, tanks along desert pan to other tanks & armoured vehicles. SV tank on lorry trailer. SV rocket carrying truck. SV pan UN Peace Keeping Force truck away pan to BV. SV jeep along pan to BV. GV pan peaceful Suez Canal. GV through gates oil refinery (GR 2321) Rotterdam. GV oil refinery tubes (Rotterdam). GV empty roads in Brussels. SV mass of cars on English roads. SV (GR 2321) car into petrol station. SCU petrol pump ticking up petrol. CU petrol cap off. SV petrol nozzle from pump, motor is turned on. CU nozzle into tank. CU petrol pump counting up gallons & price. GV (GR 2292) empty railway lines. GV carriages in sidings. SV empty Charing Cross Station. SGV (GR 2292) crowds gathered for TUC strike demonstration in London. SV pan strike past waving banners for May Day strike. SV pan strikers past on 1st May. CU (GR 2308) papers, 14 bomb terror wave hits London. SV ambulance along siren sounding down Whitehall. GV Oxford Street mass of cars about. SV windows of building with windows shattered. CU papers, 2 bombs London’s Main Station, SV main line station. SV blown out left luggage office. SV (GR 2305A) burnt out Summerland Building (IOM). AS burnt out building. SGV ditto. SV warped girders at Butlins Holiday Camp fire pan to more warped girders. SV burnt out building pan up to roof. SV firemen & police - rescuers around wreckage of carriages at West Ealing train crash. SV police & firemen sorting through wreckage. SV ditto on top of wrecked carriage. SV wreckage, carriage on side. SV policemen on side of overturned carriage. SV sign Lofthouse Colliery. SV (GR 2286) miners & friends gathered. SV shaft wheels stationary. SV rescue team walking across. SV miners watching. SV miners making collection. SV (GR 2289) wreckage of Basle crash. CU ditto, pan up more wreckage. SV wrecked fuselage pan to wrecked aircraft wrapped round trees. LV tailplane of Brazilian airline which crashed near Paris in air smouldering, pan along to fuselage mass of people around it. SV wrecked fuselage pan to firemen. SV smouldering fuselage. SV wrecked fuselage of Brazilian airline, people in f/g pan along smouldering fuselage. END OF PART 1. PART 2 (450’) SV pan (GR 2296A) Concordski fly past. SV screen Concordski crash at Paris Air Show. SV (GR 2300) drought in Africa, animals feeding off ground. CU starving people gathered together. SV woman holding baby. SV baby on back of woman. GV dried up ground. SV skeleton of animal on ground. SV (GR 2300A) eclipse of the sun. SV (GR 2282A) volcanic eruptions in Iceland. SCU volcano exploding. SV lava being blown out of volcano, volcanic debris down hillside. SV Icelandic town with mass of volcanic dust on ground. GV (GR 2315A) Reykjavik (Iceland capital). SV trawler into harbour. SV fishing boats tied up in harbour. SV Mr Heath with Mr Johannesson PM (Iceland), Mr Johannesson. SV (GR 2278) Mr Kissinger with Chinese for Vietnam signing. SV pressmen, SV Kissinger shaking hands with Le Duc Tho. SV Vietnam soldier holding fellow soldier. SV zoom in Vietnam signing in progress, Mrs Binh Foreign Minister for Provincial Revolutionary Government and Mr William Rogers for the USA. SV signing in progress. SV officials standing zoom out to LV. SV (GR 2278) Mr Nixon being sworn in for another term of office. SV (GR 2277A) Mr Johnson with family. SCU LB Johnson. SV ditto with family. SV Mr de Valera with officials out of door, SV pressmen. SV de Valera saying goodbye to officials. SV de Valera saying goodbye to VIPs. SV (GR 2315) Rock of Gibraltar. SV new Bishop through streets meeting people. SV (GR 2318) Dalai Lama meeting Tibetan children at Pestalozzi village. SCU Dalai Lama. SV Tibetan girl. SV Dalai Lama with Tibetan children. SV pan (GR 2311) Queen Juliana through streets with grandchildren in coach. SV horses pulling coach. SV Juliana & grandchildren in coach past waving crowd. SV Royal family waving from balcony. SV (GR 2320) Princess Anne & Mark Phillips up from altar on their way out. STV waving crowds outside Buckingham Palace. SV Anne & Mark waving from balcony. SV Miss M Wallace new Miss World wearing crowd & cloak down rostrum (GR 2321A). SV (GR 2305A) Henry Cooper on float waving. SV (GR 2310A) Golden Hinde in Thames. SV bow of Golden Hinde. SV ditto past Tower Bridge. SV ditto through Tower Bridge. SV ditto along side of Tower of London. SV pan Concorde past (GR 2313) lands. SV (GR 2307A) man off end of pier straight into water. SV pan man off pier wing gets caught on pier, man falls straight into water. SV pan ideal gas wing off pier straight into water. SV pan man runs off & on pier straight into water. SV pan man off top, he recorded furthest flight. REVIEW OF THE YEAR TAPE - BMN 348 IN: 01:37:45:00 OUT: 01:47:00:00

Keywords

Royalty; Commemorations; Sport; Organisations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Environment; Weapons; Curiosities; Economics; Aviation; Foreign relations; Agriculture; Competitions; Railways; Fires; Horticulture; Death; Celebrations and festivals; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Explosions; Ceremonies; Demonstrations; Terrorism; Labour relations; Pollution; Space; Marriages; Local government; Fashion and costume; Review of the Year; Accidents and disasters; Exile; Engineering; Military; Religion and belief; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Jersey

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Library

Card file number

99634A

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

833

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