Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Improved Weapons to Strafe Axis
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weapons for Victory. DESCRIPTION: New weapons are constantly being developed and tested. One of the most terrifying is the latest American flame-thrower. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Planes drop fifty 400 pounders at demonstration, concentrated explosion. Two one thousand pounders drop & explode. Torpedo bomb released falling, explodes. Fighter planes drop their emergency petrol tanks, causing huge flames & explosions. Various shots of demonstration by flame-throwers, playing flames on tanks, then directing same at camera, various angles. This was shot somewhere in the United States.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Displays; Weapons; Aviation; Fires; Explosions; Military
- Footage sources
- United States of America
Movietone
- Card file number
- 44882
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 88
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