Mono-Rail Test

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1219
Date Released
13 Oct 1952
Date submitted
13 Oct 1952
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Car Endurance
  2. 2Mono-Rail Test
  3. 3Another Water Speed Try-Out
  4. 4Haile Selassie Visits Eritrea
  5. 5Chaplin is Guest of Variety Club
  6. 6Mr Churchill at Party Conference
  7. *Cardiff’s Tin Mill

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mono Rail Trains. DESCRIPTION: There are inventors with one-track minds, and a mono-railway designed in Germany and demonstrated near Cologne is anticipated to reach speeds of 180 mph. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Driver closes down roof of train. Various shots of the monorail train (model) speeding round.
Local distribution only
Not shown in Cardiff.
Keywords
Railways; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
Cologne
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
57938
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
44
Story extras:
Film clip

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