The Snark’s Big Test

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1486A
Date Released
28 Nov 1957
Date submitted
25 Nov 1957
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Lovely Grub
  2. 2Cyprus Hide-Out
  3. 3Paris Talks
  4. 4North African Meeting
  5. 5Priority for Paratroops
  6. 6Ship Explosion
  7. 7Bush Fires
  8. 8The Snark’s Big Test
  9. *The Prince’s Visit

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
8 / 8
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canaveral Missile. DESCRIPTION: A long-range, subsonic, turbo-jet, pilotless plane - the Snark (one of America’s Intercontinental Missiles) - underwent a test flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida, to a target 5,000 miles out in the Atlantic. SHOTLIST: Various shots of control room & control panel. Shot of man working. Shots of rocket being launched and in flight. Shots of the boosters falling away, and falling back to earth, then burst into flames. GS rocket (the Snark) in flight.
Keywords
Weapons; Aviation; Fires; Science and technology
Locations
United States of America; Florida; Cape Canaveral
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
72197
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
110
Story extras:
Film clip

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