Scientific Section

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1466A
Date Released
11 Jul 1957
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Prince Charles - Sports Day
  2. 2Scientific Section
  3. 3Knock-Out!
  4. 4Heat-Wave Athletics
  5. 5Brooklands Remembered
  6. *Leeds Children’s Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scientific Section International Geophysical Year. DESCRIPTION: Men and machines digging for atomic energy, at a uranium mine known as Rum Jungle, in North Australia. We are now living in the International Geophysical Year, and the launching of the first Earth Satellite will certainly be a red-letter day on the calendar. An animated diagram showed the sequence of the three-stage rocket breaking up. It increases its speed all the time, till it ejects the satellite into its orbit, three hundred miles up. This one’s in Australia. An Australian contribution to the 62-nation programme concerns the visual study of the distant stars. A giant telescope brings outer space into the scientists backyard. SHOTLIST: Various shots of men digging in mechanical machines at a Uranium mine. Rock in a digger being moved from the rock face and put into a lorry. Rock being moved along in the lorry by the digger. MCU Man sitting in the lorry. CU Sign STOP - Restricted Area etc. Treatment plant. Tank full of bubbling substances. Steam rising from container. Shots of uranium oxide dripping down (like toothpaste). Man touching the uranium oxide that is now in powder form. Slip pan - rocket taking off. Animated diagram showing the sequence of the three stage rocket breaking up. Animation - satellite in the air and then sending signals to tracking stations. Slip pan to Australia to a tracking station. Woman looking at equipment which receives the information. Diagram showing satellite circling the Earth once every 90 minutes. Man talking into microphone. Animation of satellite. Slip pan - Australia - Telescope opening up. Interior telescope. Equipment. Man looking through telescope. Shots of the stars.
Keywords
Vehicles; Environment; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Space; Newsreels
Locations
Australia; Rum Jungle
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
71172
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
174
Story extras:
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