Screen Sharpshooters

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1394

Date Released

20 Feb 1956

Date submitted

13 Feb 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Ice Bound Continent
2. 2Ice Bound Continent
3. 3Ice Bound Continent
4. 4Ice Bound Continent
5. 5Weather Balloon Protest
6. 6Screen Sharpshooters
7. 7Australia Remembers
8. 8The Royal Nigerian Tour
9. 9The Royal Nigerian Tour

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 9

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pistol Shooting. DESCRIPTION: American Military Police in Munich are using a new pistol shooting range. A sixteen millimetre projector is used to show a moving picture for the marksman to aim at. A direct hit is signalled by the projector stopping. The US Army are trying out this invention for the first time. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the American Military Police in Munich using a new pistol shooting range. A 16 mm projector was used to show a moving picture for the marksman to aim at. A direct hit was shown by the stopping of the projector. The American Army were trying out this invention for the first time.

Keywords

Education and training; Weapons; Military; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

Germany; Munich

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

65971

Credits:

Commentator

David Lewis Jacobs

Length of story (in feet)

60

Story extras:

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