President Obama visits maternal ancestral town

Описание: (23 May 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Close up pan of US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walking from Marine One helicopter
2. Pan of motorcade arriving in town
3. Close up Obamas getting out of car
4. Close up President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeting and hugging town officials
5. Close up both shaking hands
6. Wide people waiting to shake hands
7. Close-up of President Obama with baby
8. Various Obamas shaking hands with well wishers (DISSOLVE)
9. Close up Obama talking with children in crowd
10. Wide, street
11. Pan, US flag and house
12. Close-up Obama going into house
STORYLINE:
US President Barack Obama has arrived in the small Irish town where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker.
Thousands of excited townspeople lined the Main Street of quaint Moneygall on Monday waving Irish and American flags and waiting for Obama to appear.
The president took a helicopter from Dublin for a quick visit to the improbable site of a piece of his ancestry.
Obama's thrice-removed grandfather on his Kansas-born mother's side, Falmouth Kearney, left Moneygall for the United States in 1850 and Obama's roots in the town were discovered during the 2008 presidential campaign.
It was a colourful and nostalgic journey on day one of the president's six-day, four-country Europe tour.

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