Mass Long Distance Skiing

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2338A

Date Released

28 Mar 1974

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Wedding Gift for Princess Anne
2. 2Artificial Ski Slope
3. 3Mass Long Distance Skiing
4. 4News in Colour: Fire Brigade Stamps
5. 5News in Colour: Hong Kong Fire Brigade

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mass Long Distance Skiing. DESCRIPTION: 4,000 skiers in the King Ludwig Memorial Long Distance Skiing race at Oberammergau, Bavaria. SHOTLIST: GV 4,000 skiers at the start of race, zoom into long view. STV mass of skiers going past. LV as they go away from camera. SV skiers including the oldest No 171 age 88 years. LV mass of skiers towards camera. CU pan another elderly skier pan down to skis. SV pan skiers down slope. GBV as skiers go past woods. SV skier running past camera and collapses. SV skiers take refreshment and ski on. SV pan No 1 from Finland Paul Siitonen. SV pan as he finishes race & wins. SV winner being congratulated.

Keywords

Sport; Older people

Locations

Oberammergau

Footage sources

France

Card file number

99833

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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