Golden Gate Bridge Opened

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2366
Date Released
7 Oct 1974
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Motor Cycle Cross
  2. 21975 Shoe Fashions
  3. 3Churchill Stamps
  4. 4Model Ship Builder
  5. 5Surfing Hobby Cat
  6. 6Underwater Painter
  7. 7Golden Gate Bridge Opened

Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Golden Gate of Hamburg. DESCRIPTION: In front of a massive crowd, President Scheel opens the Koehlbrand Bridge at Hamburg. It has already earned the title of ‘the most beautiful bridge in Europe’ and ‘Golden Gate of Hamburg’. SHOTLIST: LV bridge spanning river tracking shots (2) from car going across bridge, view from bridge. SV Federal President Walter Scheel’s party arriving on bridge, they leave their cars. SCU President talking. CU President looking at view pan to view, top shot people waving from ferry about to pass under bridge. SV President waving at people in ferry. SV pan press round President. SV pan President walking through press after opening bridge. SV masses of people walking across bridge. GV ditto masses and masses stretching length of bridge. SV pan 2 people (girls) roller skating over bridge. BV people on bridge, pan GV bridge.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Entertainment and leisure; Ceremonies; Engineering; Scenery and travel
Locations
Germany
Footage sources
France
Card file number
74/210
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
122
Story extras:
Film clip

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