Golden Gate Bridge Opened

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2366

Date Released

7 Oct 1974

Stories in this Issue:

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:

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