Learning on ScreenSpeed Sailing
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Speed Sailing. DESCRIPTION: In Portland Bay, the yachts were using as much wind power as possible in trying to break the World Speed Sailing Record. The target was to reach a speed of 40 knots and pass the record of 31.09 knots, held by the Proa ‘Crossbow’. The bait, a prize of £4,000. SHOTLIST: LS ‘Crossbow’ speeding across water. GV Weymouth. WA boats on beach preparing to sail. Pan across boats on beach. MS pan up ‘Clifton Flasher’. CU man working winch. MS ‘Clifton Flasher’. WA man pulling up sail. SV pan people carrying boat to water. LAS boat carried over camera. BS boat carried to water. SV ditto another ‘Orlando’. CU man sailing in ‘One-up’. CU sail. WA ‘One-up’ sailing, one side lifts up. BV man in ‘One up’. BV ditto leaning out. WA ‘One-up’ into sun, pan. SV pan sailing boat with 2 sails on pivot. CU ditto. BV ditto. WA ditto. LV ‘Orlando’ on its side in water. CU time-keepers watching. SV men right boat. SC ‘One-up’ goes on its side. CU water-bird watching, same dives under. SV 2 men sailing surfboard with sails. CU ditto. SV pan ‘British Oxygen’ on water. SV timekeeper stops watch. WA ‘British Oxygen’ on the move. CU water passing under yacht. CU pan down from sails to deck. SV back of yacht. LV ‘British Oxygen’ sailing. CU bow of yacht. SV deck. CU bow of yacht passing buoy. CU watches being stopped. WA ‘British Oxygen’ at slow speed. SC ‘Tornacious’. SV ditto. WA (Proa 42 sailing). SV ditto. CU man sailing Proa 42. SV man sailing boat. SV men leaning out of boat. WA training ship ‘Malcolm Miller’. BV ditto. SV boat sails past ‘Malcolm Miller’. SCU on board man sailing boat with steering wheel. CU steering wheel. SV man and mate sailing boat. CU bow of boat through water. BV man leaning out. LV man at steering wheel. GV boat on water. CU on board man leaning out of boat. LV boats sails up onto beach, up to camera.
- Keywords
- Sport; Ships and boats; Competitions; Sailing
- Locations
- Dorset; Weymouth
- Card file number
- 77/9A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 456
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