Learning on ScreenThe Red Moon
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Red Moon. DESCRIPTION: Signals from the Russian satellite - the Red Moon, the news of whose launching burst on the world like a bolt from the blue. Rocket - launched, it was to circle the earth every ninety minutes, at the same time sending radio messages back to earth. It circles the earth every ninety five minutes, over five hundred miles up at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour. SHOTLIST: Signals (sound) from Russian Satellite. Various shots of newspaper headlines: Space Age Is Here, Man Made Moon Is Up, Russia Wins Space Race etc. Shots of scientists handling sphere. Rocket take off. Various animation shots and diagrams illustrating process (see commentary). Various shots of scientists at monitoring stations. Ends with shot of sky. Signals from the Russian Satellite - the Red Moon. Diagram of the rocket in three different stages - animation shots. People listen to the bleeps. Comb B&W 09896 - shots of aerials. Shots of the control room. Pussy cat stretching etc. Man talks about Sputnik 7. Listens to bleeps. Commentary - Yes, signals from the Russian satellite - the red Moon, the news of whose launching burst on the world like a bolt from the blue. Staggering news, for we in the West had expected that the United States would be the first to launch a satellite. We’d all seen the pictures of their man-made moon, a small sphere weighing some twenty pounds or less. Rocket-launches, it was to circle the earth every ninety minutes, at the same time sending radio messages back to earth. These pictures illustrate the American plan. A three stage process, each rocket adding extra boost, to carry the moon up beyond the earth’s atmosphere. Well, now the Russians have done it: they’ve done it first and they’ve done it with complete success. The Soviet satellite is said to be about ten times as heavy as America’s Projected Moon, and it circles the earth every ninety-five minutes, over five hundred miles up, at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour. All over the world, scientists and monitoring stations have been tracking and listening to it. The world watches and waits and wonders, as the Red Moon sends back its messages to Moscow - and the world! RUSSIAN SATELLITE SIGNALS - CARD 71842 BBC Tatsfield GV of station, several angle shots of aerials. BBC engineers at work. Mr Griffiths Chief Engineer bending over central desk. CU of Mr Griffiths. NEWSPAPER HEADLINES - CARD 71846 Great Russell Street, London GV of various newspaper headlines.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Mass media; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Space; Animals; Newsreels
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 71853
- Credits:
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- Soundman
- George E. Collings
- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- John Davies
- Camera
- Terry O’Brien
- Length of story (in feet)
- 158
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