Learning on ScreenOlympic Games. Opening Highlights
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- British Movietone News
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Montreal - Olympic Games Opening Highlights. DESCRIPTION: HM the Queen declares open the twenty-first modern Olympic Games and as a gesture to the French-Canadians makes the speech in FrenchBefore the lighting of the Olympic Flame the teams of the competing Nations march behind their flags into the StadiumThe opening events in the Olympic Pool seemed to be dominated by the girls from East Germany, Kornelia Ender created a new world record to take the ‘Gold’ in the 100 metres Free-style. In the Mens events it was the team from the USA on top, winning the 4 x 200 metres Relay and John Hencken the 100 metres BreaststrokeOnce again Womens Gymnastics produced a top star, 14 year-old Nadia Comaneci from Rumania, overall she collected the maximum ten points six times. SHOTLIST: GV Olympic stadium. MS the Queen arrives in royal box. MS dancers standing round running track. CU the Queen pull back to VIPs. MLS scoreboard. MS Pierre Trudeau (PM of Canada) and Mrs Margaret Trudeau. GV stadium. MS Australian team. MS Australian girls. MLS USA team. CU USA men. GV teams in arena, French team arrives, tilt down to French girls. MLS British team. MS British girls past. MCU the Queen. MLS British sailing team saluting. CU sign "Republique Democratique Allemande". MS East German girls past. MLS Russian team. CU Russian flag tilt down to bearer. MCU sign "Canada" with flag and team. MLS Canadian girls past. MS ditto back shot. MS Canadians entering. GV stadium. MS the Queen. MLS Olympic flag carried in. MS flag past and lifted in salute to Queen. LS flag past the Queen. GV crowd. MS flag run up. MS two runners enter with Olympic flame (2 shots). MS they run up to flame dish. MLS runners forward salute the Queen and VIPs. MS Trudeau and wife. MS flame ignited. CU Nickolai Kolesnikov (USSR) weight-lifter zoom into face. CU woman clapping. MS winners. MS Jennifer Chandler (USA) on springboard. MS her dive in slow motion. MS start. MLS start of womens 100m Free style. MS swimmers into water and away. MCU head on swimmers. MS tracking part of race zoom into K Ender (GDR). MLS Ender touches to win. MCU Ender in water. MS scoreboard with result. MS crowd. MLS in progress Mens 4 x 200m Free style. MS Montgomery (USA) in front then touches. LS pool zoom to German team being told they lost bronze. MS scoreboard. MS swimmers in pool. MCU starter. MLS men dive at start of 100m Breaststroke. MCU swimmer towards. MS tracking, swimmers turn zoom into John Hencken (USA). MLS swimmers finish, Hencken first, David Wilkie (GB) second. MS people clapping. MCU Hencken in water. MS Andrianov (USSR) doing floor exercises. MCU judge. MS exercise finishes. MCU scoreboard. MS Kato on parallel bars. MS Andrianov vaults. MS scoreboard. MS Russian and Japanese flags raised. MS winners on rostrum. MCU Nelli Kim (USSR) starting vault. MS vault in slow motion. MS scoreboard. MS slow motion Nadia Comaneci on beam. MS spectators. MS Comaneci on beam. MS scoreboard showing 10.00. MS Comaneci on isometric bars (2 shots). MS zoom into scoreboard showing 10.00. MS slow motion Comaneci waves wearing gold medal.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Sport; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Fires; Swimming; Ceremonies; Water sports; Youth; Newsreels
- Locations
- Montreal
- Card file number
- 76/149A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 668
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