The Torrey Canyon (1967)
The Torrey Canyon (1967)
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- Release Date: 18th March 1967
- Asset ID: 800582
- Synopsis: Film depicting the clean-up operation after the tanker "The Torrey Canyon" struck Pollard's Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, 18 March 1967.
- Shotlist: START. 00:02:01 TITLE: The Torrey Canyon. 00:02:11 Aerial shot moving from lightship “Sevenstones” to Torrey canyon tanker ship. 00:03:09 WS ship in dock, WS camera follows barrel being carried by crane onto small boat, boat chugs out from harbour. 00:03:27 Tilt up from water to Torrey Canyon, mixes through to tighter shot. Aerial shot of the ship, cuts to tighter top shot of boat showing damage from explosion. 00:04:01 WS large naval ship, Aerial move from small boat to sea. 00:04:17 Aerial shot over sea showing the effect the detergent being distributed by the ships has on emulsifying the structure of the oil and helping it disperse more readily. 00:04:22 Aerial of BEA helicopter, mix through to same helicopter hovering near ship with air-compressor, Aerial of Torrey Canyon, cutting to aerial of helicopter hovering over Torrey Canyon, camera moves from ship to sea. 00:04:50 GVs of sea and shore. 00:05:16 Aerial showing oil tanker broken into two halves. 00:05:23 GVs improvised booms. 00:05:37 CU man undoing nut in boom, cut to wide shot of previous revealing location - harbour at St Ives. 00:05:43 WS smoking Torrey Canyon tanker in the distance, explosions as it is bombed, WS people watching through binoculars, Torrey Canyon being bombed in the distance, WS people on beach watching, WS Torrey Canyon bombed mix through to Torrey Canyon being bombed by RAF Hunters with bombs containing liquefied petroleum jelly. MS man taking photograph of bombing. WS of Torrey Canyon with clouds of smoke billowing up cut to tighter shot of the previous, cut back to MS girl watching, cut back to WS of Torrey Canyon with smoke pouring up from it. 00:06:48 Aerial circling smoking Torrey Canyon ship sinking. 00:07:01 GVs oil in Cornish sea and coast 00:07:12 WS firemen unloading machinery from truck, firemen lay machinery down on ground, MS London Auxiliary Fire Service, MS firemen chatting in group, fireman pours tea, WS hoses connected to fire-truck running, man rolling barrel down alley, people carrying fire hose over hill, army helicopter takes off with detergent in tow CU to WS helicopter lands. 00:08:17 WS Pan R from detergent truck on cliff to two people spraying detergent on sand, WS Pan L from sea to shore, BWS 4 people spraying detergent on beach, bulldozers pushing sand, oil floating in sea. 00:09:04 WS men spraying rocks, HA WS of previous, three men spraying detergent on beaches, man de kinks hose, HA WS of three people spraying. 00:09:23 Tilt up and right from hose lying on beach to sea, dead bird floating in sea, man with net stands by water’s edge. 00:09:38 CUs dead birds on beach, CU sign “Oiled Birds taken in here for the RSPCA”, Ext WS RSPCA wild bird sanctuary hospital, 2S women cleaning oiled bird, swans in cage. 00:10:00 WS house, man climbs down ladder. 00:10:13 Aerial CU sweeping across sea, various shots oil on beaches. 00:10:46 Boats bobbing in water, CU Oily water, civilians spreading sawdust onto oil on beach. Pan R to people spreading sawdust on the beach. 00:11:32 GVs bulldozers lifting sawdust and oil off beach. 00:11:51 WS tilt up from oil on beach to WS beach, GVs men shovelling oil and sawdust off beach. 00:12:27 WS people assembled in town square. 00:12:34 WS Beach with oil, GVs women shovelling oil. 00:13:19 Pan L across oil beach. 00:13:35 Aerial Torrey Canyon smoking. ENDS
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: Other
- Alternative Language Notes: None