Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Secret Weapons in Australian Desert

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

999

Date Released

26 Jul 1948

Date submitted

20 Jul 1948

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Secret Weapons in Australian Desert
2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: US Jets Reach England
3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Royal Engagements - Shah’s Visit
4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Royal Engagements - Palestine Police
5. 5Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Royal Engagements - Chatham Naval Visit
6. 6Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Royal Engagements - Lord Derby Wed
7. 7Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Cricket - Leeds Test

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Long Range Weapons. DESCRIPTION: A Testing Centre for rockets has been set up in the Australian desert. SHOTLIST: KS MS passenger plane. Aerial - press & newsreel reporters seated in plane, looking down at barren country below. Official goes round plane, pulling down blinds. MS Pimba Railway Station. MS sign ‘Pimba’. Sign reads Beware of Engine. GV single line railway track. MS building under construction. MS Lt General Evetts and Brigadier Edgar (in uniform). Maps of the countryside etc. Various tools, rollers etc. being towed over the land to churn same up. MS rocket starting his flight and crashing a little way off. LS explosion. SV supersonic rocket speeding along rails and crashes into target, same exploding. Into camera and under camera - rocket along rails, almost too fast for eye to follow.

Keywords

Weapons

Locations

Australia; Pimba

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

50524

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

158

Story extras:

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