Viking Battle

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2522

Date Released

2 Oct 1977

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fashion Show
2. 2World’s Smallest Horses
3. 3Viking Battle
4. 4Six-Day Cycle Race
5. 5Hovercraft Championships

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Viking Battle. DESCRIPTION: Members of the Norse Film & Pageant Society re-enact an episode in the life of 9th century England depicting fighting with bows and arrows and armed combat. SHOTLIST: GV Vikings run and start fighting. MS ditto. LS crowd. MS men with huge catapult. MS people fitting bows and arrows. LS ditto and catapult fired. MS spectator. LS wood burning. MS Viking with spear. MS Viking fighting. CU girl watching. MS battle. MCU ditto. MS very large Viking fighting and ‘getting killed’.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure

Locations

Essex; Basildon

Card file number

77/172

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Camera

Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

114

Story extras:

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