Another Water Speed Try-Out

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1219

Date Released

13 Oct 1952

Date submitted

9 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

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Another Water Speed Try-Out. DESCRIPTION: Undeterred by the disaster that overtook John Cobb, Mr and Mrs Hanning-Lee are still after the world water-speed record in their jet craft White Hawk on Lake Windermere. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV Lake Windermere. SCU Mr & Mrs Hanning-Lee. CU of both climbing into White Hawk. CU name. Boat starts, bit bumpy, shots of it travelling along at slow speed.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Environment; Records; Speed records

Locations

Lake Windermere

Card file number

57942

Credits:

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

77

Story extras:

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