Learning on ScreenNews in Colour: Balloon Meeting
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Section Title
- News in Colour
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Balloon Meeting Colour. DESCRIPTION: Drifting across the Gloucestershire countryside are the competitors in an International Hot Air Balloon Race. There were over seventy balloons in the race, an indication of the increasing interest in ballooning. SHOTLIST: GV hot air balloon rising into air, GV balloons being inflated with hot air. SV ditto balloon half inflated. SV burner being used to inflate balloon. SV balloon rising into air with 2 men in basket. SV pan car arriving with equipment in trailer, Aquarius sign on trailer. GV preparations of equipment by cars & trailers. 3 CUs, basket on trailer, trailer with equipment & sign ‘Dante Balloon Group’, sign on trailer ‘The Dream Machine Hot Air Balloon’. 4 SVs man removing packed balloon from trailer, men unpacking equipment and balloon from trailer, man unpacking balloon from bag, setting up hot air burner. CU hot air burner burning pan to large flame. GV men using burner to blow up balloon. SV ditto pan to balloon filling. SV pan half inflated balloon, men in basket under balloon being held on ground by group of people. CU inflated balloon. LV balloon with burner on rising up into air. GV balloon in various stages of inflation, 1 rising in air. SV pan 2 balloons being filled. SV man in helmet filling balloon using burner. GV balloons in various stages of inflation. SV balloon just taking off. CU balloon. GV gas balloon being filled and prepared. GV gas balloon veteran Dr Charles Dolfus age 83, SV gas balloon half filled. SV Dolfus talking by gas balloon & giving advice, SCU men preparing gas balloon by adjusting sand bags pan to weights. SV man standing on basket & pan to weights. SV man standing on basket & pan to another man on basket. CU men by basket. GV gas balloon rising into air, people in basket waving (balloon not visible). GV Charles Dolfus talking. GV 2 gas balloons in air. SV ‘Pirelli’ gas balloon just rising into the air. SV 2 hot air balloons just taking off, low angle shot of hot air balloon rising in air. GV balloons on ground being prepared. SV two men in basket rising in air. Low angle of balloon rising in air (Gollywog balloon). 3 GVs ground shot from balloon, Gollywog balloon in air, people on ground from balloon. SV low angle shot man in basket, low angle shot burner firing. GV ground below. GV two balloons in air. SV from balloon men in basket looking at map. GV railway train below. GV balloons in air. 4 SVs hot air balloon deflating on ground. Hot air balloon which came down with pilot and onlookers round basket, pilot making notes, Malcolm Forbes American pilot. SV men tucking up balloon. GV deflated balloon at side of road, Italian pilot Franco Sergre tucking it up. SV his car. SV Franco Sergre tucking balloon up.
- Keywords
- Sport; Organisations; Entertainment and leisure; Aviation; Competitions
- Locations
- Cirencester
- Card file number
- 74/29
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norris
- Length of story (in feet)
- 255
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