Men’s Downhill Skiing

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2541

Date Released

12 Feb 1978

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Men’s Downhill Skiing
2. 2Safari Rally

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Skiing Championships - Men’s Downhill. DESCRIPTION: At Garmisch-Partenkirchen the Men’s Downhill Skiing Competition formed part of the World Championships. The favourite to take the gold was Franz Klammer, but he did not justify this and fellow Austrian Sepp Walcher was first with West German Michael Veith second. SHOTLIST: GV Bavarian Alps back to Zugspitze Peak. GV Zugspitze. GV Garmisch village tilt to mountains. MS flag ‘Ski’ 78 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen. GV statue at entrance of stadium - pull back to GV contestants march into arena. MS crowd. MS Federal President Walter Scheel (left of frame), Bavarian President Alfons Goppel (right of frame). MCU ditto. MS people dressed up as mascots waving. MS Austrian team march in. MS West German team march in. MS British team march in. GV ski-slope pull back to skiers preparing. Various of skiers preparations and limbering up. MCU West German Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer. MS start Khorani (Iran) down slope. MS slow motion No 8 Vesti (Switzerland). MS slow motion No 11 Antoniolli (Italy). MS bad weather starts. No 10 Franz Klammer starts. MS Klammer on track. MS Klammer approaches finish line. MS No 12 Werner Grissman (Austria) down slope. MS ditto. MS start No 15 Michael Veith (West Germany) down slope. MS ditto down slope. MS ditto. MS Veith approaches finish line. Ms off skis cheering. MS men holding skis. MS No 5 starts Sepp Walcher (Austria). MS Walcher down slope. MS slow motion Walcher. LS approaches finish line. MS Walcher being congratulated. 1st Sepp Walcher, 2nd Michael Veith, 3rd Werner Grissman.

Keywords

Sport; Winter sports

Locations

Germany; Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Footage sources

Munich

Card file number

78/16

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

320

Story extras:

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