An Unidentified Object

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1487A

Date Released

5 Dec 1957

Date submitted

3 Dec 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thunderbird on Target
2. 2Ike’s Outing
3. 3Two-Way Church
4. 4Last Curtain
5. 5Market Day
6. 6An Unidentified Object
7. 7Taverners’ Ball

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Unidentified Object. DESCRIPTION: A flaming something or other out of the sky. It landed in a marsh near Hamburg, right in a ditch. It could be part of the Sputnik rocket, or it could be something even stranger. SHOTLIST: Man and boy looking at the ‘Object’ in the marshland ditch. CU ‘Object’. It is tested for radio activity. It is dammed up in the stream and covered with sacks. Shots of people looking-on, and dog running away.

Keywords

Environment; Science and technology; Space; Animals

Locations

Germany; Hamburg

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

72279

Credits:

Commentator

Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

87

Story extras:

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