Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Radar
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- British Movietone News
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- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Radar. DESCRIPTION: Movietone explains how RADAR, secret until now, works. The use of radio waves reflected back from an object allows it’s speed and course to be measured. Of great use in wartime RADAR now has many peace time roles. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS Army Radar equipment revolving in field, tended by American soldiers. CU Cathode-ray-tube. Diagrams show radar registering waves transmitted. The hit objects ie ships, planes, lands and reflects back to sender. Diagram of plane in sky registering in movement, speed etc. on chart. Radar picks Nazi plane, also Allied plane, diagram shows different effects. Diagram shows magic eye in plane picking up ships etc. Cathode ray also indicates whether objects are to port or starboard. Ships move up Thames Estuary, shots on bridge, run into fog, various shots. Passing buoy. Diagrams show invisible feeler going out and picking up object. Allied battleships off Tokyo (night), bombarding same. Aerial shot of Lancaster in flight. Chart of Thames Estuary. Radar as seen by the navigator, various shots. Objects moving up Estuary, big blob being their own ship. Diagram of ack-ack batteries and radar equipment sending out feelers, pick up enemy planes. Men and women working in ‘plotting’ centre. Ack-ack at night firing guns, searchlight picking up planes. One plane shot down. Operations Room, ‘plotters’ and ‘tellers’, men and women working on radar. CU controller. Board showing the final number of enemy planes shot down during the war. Various diagrams showing how radar works, at sea, in the air and land. US plane on fire, back at base, picked up by radar, plane crashes into sea, crew destroy radar equipment and take to dinghy. Planes land in fog by radar, "Coming in on the beam" so called.
- Keywords
- Science and technology
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
Universal
- Card file number
- 46081
- Credits:
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- Camera
- David Prosser
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- W. Larkins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 311
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