- Title: GERMANY: SAND WORLD FESTIVAL OF SAND SCULPTURES
- Date: 11th July 2003
- Summary: (EU) TRAVEMUENDE, GERMANY (JULY 11, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF SANDWORLD 0.04 2. WIDE OF SAND FIGURES FROM VARIOUS AGES 0.09 3. CLOSE UP OF WOMAN WORKING WITH SANDWORLD FLAG IN BACKGROUND 0.16 4. VARIOUS OF WOMAN SCULPTOR WORKING ON THE SCULPTURE (2 SHOTS) 0.L27 5. CLOSE UP OF SCULPTOR WORKING ON SAND FACE 0.32 6. WIDE OF SAND SCULPTURES 0.37 7. VARIOUS, OF SAND SCULPTURE OF TOWER OF BABEL (3 SHOTS) 0.55 8. CLOSE UP OF EYE BEING SCULPTED 1.03 9. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (German) PROJECT LEADER, JANA KUERBIS FROM THE LUEBECK TOURIST BOARD SAYING: "The theme is World Wonders. We have tried to combine great world wonders from Antiquity with modern world wonders in the sand, in combination with lots of figures, with wonderful discoveries and inventions, cultures, human developments and so on, a trip around the world which I think is worth it." 1.26 10. CLOSE UP OF ANCIENT FACE 1.30 11. CLOSE UP OF MODERN FACE WITH SUNGLASSES 1.34 12. WIDE OF VARIOUS SAND FACES 1.39 13. SLV VISITORS WALKING PAST SCULPTURES 1.46 14. CLOSE UP OF SAND FACE WITH TEMPLE IN BACKGROUND 1.57 15. WIDE OF SAND SCUPLTURES WITH FERRY GOING PAST IN THE BACKGROUND 2.05 16. CLOSE UP OF FATHER LOOKING WITH YOUNG DAUGHTER 2.08 17. WIDE OF SAND TEMPLE WITH SCULPTORS WORKING ON THE STEPS/ PAN OF VISITORS 2.20 18. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (German) HEAD OF THE DUTCH SAND ACADEMY, EPPO VOGEL SAYING: "We have 9,000 tonnes of sand altogether I think, 5,000 tonnes of which we brought over from Holland. This is special sand, the sand grains have corners, and because they have corners, they keep standing. We only need the sand from the beach here for the insides, over the top of it we put the special sand." 2.44 19. WIDE/ PAN OF PEOPLE SCULPTING A LANDSCAPE 2.57 20. VARIOUS VIEWS OF AUSTRALIAN SCULPTOR DAN SCULPTING A SURFER (2 SHOTS) 3.09 21. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN SCULPTOR DAN SAYING: "The sand is a problem. Sand structurally comes out like out of an hour glass, at an angle like a pyramid. When you do this with it (points to the surfer sculpture), it gets a little prickly, it wants to fall. So you have got to know where to stop, where to support something with the hair, the hair is supporting the head so that it doesn't fall off, that kind of thing. You make an illusion and put it together (laughs)." 3.30 22. WIDE OF PYRAMIDS AND VISITORS/ PAN TO SPHINX 3.44 23. CLOSE UP OF SPHYNX 3.48 24. WIDE OF VISITORS 3.55 25. VARIOUS OF ZULU RULER TSCHAKA WITH LEOPARDS ON THE THRONE (3 SHOTS) 4.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: TRAVEMUENDE, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
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- Story Text: The Sand World Festival in Travemuende has opened to
show tourists the wonders of the world and the wonderful world
of sand.
Friday (July 11) marked the start of the Sand World
exhibition that, until September 7, will enable visitors to
Germany to see the tower of Babel or the Sphinx from Gizeh.
Wonders of the world is the theme of this year's Sand
World in the northern German town of Travemuende on the Baltic
coast.
Project leader Jana Kuerbis, from the Luebeck tourist
board, said there was something for everyone, and compared it
to a trip around the world.
"We have tried to combine great world wonders from
Antiquity with modern world wonders in the sand, in
combination with lots of figures, with wonderful discoveries
and inventions, cultures, human developments and so on, a trip
around the world which I think is worth it," Kuerbis said.
A far cry from average sand castles, over 70 artists have
created modern wonders and historical spectacles, sculpting
Zulu kings and underwater landscapes. Australian surfers made
from sand carve across the beach between ancient pyramids.
Over 9,000 tonnes of sand were used for the sculptures,
some as high as 11 metres, which spread across 10,000 square
metres of beach. Five tonnes of special sand, where the sand
grains have corners, had to be brought in from Holland to help
the sculptors who say they have to use various tricks to keep
the crumbly creations together.
"The sand is a problem. Sand structurally comes out like
out of an hour glass, at an angle like a pyramid. When you do
this with it, it gets a little prickly, it wants to fall. So
you have got to know where to stop," said Australian sculptor
Dan.
The first Sand World in 2002 drew in over 200,000 visitors
and this year organisers are hoping the news will bring even
more.
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