Snow Festival

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2437

Date Released

15 Feb 1976

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Snow Sculptures at Sapporo. DESCRIPTION: Twenty-five years ago the people of Sapporo began sculpturing in the winter snow that was freezing their city. Now their Snow Festival is one of the big tourist attractions of Japan. From the frozen snow are created works of art, such as this year’s main set ‘The Washington White House’. SHOTLIST: LV Sapporo pan round. MLS various snow sculptures. MS snow sculpture of a boy. CU two people about to get snow out of a bucket. MS man working on one of the snow sculptures. MS people working on various snow sculptures. CU man getting snow out of bucket and working it into one of the sculptures. MS people working on one of the sculptures. CU man’s face as he is working. MCU another man working. MS people walking around. MS two men working on a scaffold pull back to see more of the snow sculpture they are working on. MS man working. MS men working up on scaffold. MCU unwanted part of a sculpture being sawn off. MCU more work on a sculpture. MLS sculpture "The Dog of Flanders" with children going down the slide. MS child coming down the slide. MS another child coming down the slide. MS group of children. MCU men repairing the slide. MS ditto. MCU part of the snow sculpture "The Dog of Flanders". MS child coming down slide. MS children coming down slide on "Mysterious UFO" sculpture pan up to see flying saucer on top. MLS "Mysterious UFO". MS people milling. MS two children look. MLS scene from a well known Kabuki drama zoom into heads. MS one of the faces of Kabuki’s. MLS the Kabuki sculpture. MCS the castle in "Rose of Versailles" sculpture. MS part of "Rose of Versailles" sculpture. MLS sculpture of the "White House". MS two people taking photographs pan to see sculpture of George Washington with children sitting in front. MCU George Washington’s face. MLS "White House" sculpture lit up at night with Statue of Liberty in foreground. MS Statue of Liberty. MS various stalls at night. MS people buying things from a stall. MS statue of ice lit at night by lights. MCS sculpture of "Gate of Dragon King". MS part of "Gate of Dragon King". MS another part of "Gate of Dragon King". MCU part of dragon’s face in sculpture "Gate of Dragon King". MS sculpture "Gate of Dragon King".

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Environment; Arts and crafts; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Japan

Footage sources

Japan

Card file number

76/20

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

309

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