Learning on ScreenAll Colour Reel: Cooling Tower Demolition
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- All Colour Reel
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cooling Tower Demolition - Colour. DESCRIPTION: Cooling towers at Croydon Power Station, are demolished by controlled explosives. SHOTLIST: SGV Croydon ‘A’ power station. CU sign Croydon A grid sub station. BGV 2 cooling towers for demolition. SV interior in cooling tower, pan from top to wall showing charge. SV charges in place. SV crowds gathered. AS cameramen on stand. SV 2 cooling towers for demolition. CU man setting up detonator. CU man winding detonator, man presses side button. GV cooling tower explodes, collapses. CU man winding detonator, presses fire button. GV cooling tower explodes, collapses, pan up to building collapsing. SV pan demolished remains of cooling tower. SV pan ditto pan to other demolished cooling tower. CU rubble. SV demolished cooling tower. SV workmen looking. GV cooling tower blown up, collapses slow motion. SV men, women & children watching. GV cooling tower blown up, collapses slow motion. Selected scenes. 2 shots towers collapsing. Good shots Movietone cameramen setting up cameras.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Mass media; Explosions; Engineering; Newsreels
- Locations
- Croydon
- Card file number
- 99649
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Camera
- Paul Kavanagh
- Length of story (in feet)
- 198
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