Safe Testing

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

190

Date Released

18 Aug 1958

Date recorded

11 Jul 1958

Length of issue (in feet)

757

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Customs Men at Oil Refinery
2. 2High Diver
3. 3Safe Testing

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Greatest despoiler of safes is not the burglar as you might expect, but fire. To see how modern manufacturers are coping with this problem, we witness an impressive demonstration in which a safe full of documents is roasted in an oven at 1,780 degrees F, taken out and dropped 30 feet on to concrete, then roasted for a further hour. Believe it or not, after all this, the documents and films inside were found to be in perfect condition!

Keywords

Science and technology

Locations

Weybridge; England; Surrey

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

280

Story extras:

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