Wot! No Gravity

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1511
Date Released
19 May 1958
Date submitted
15 May 1958
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1State Reception
  2. 2British Motor Cycle Win
  3. 3Picture of a Star
  4. 4Society Wedding
  5. 5Sir Vivian Fuchs
  6. 6Wot! No Gravity
  7. 7The French Crisis

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Space Test (Wot! No Gravity). DESCRIPTION: A report came from Texas; of an experiment, by the US Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. It’s the study of weightlessness: The Jet Plane is going through what’s called a long, high speed arc, producing a centrifugal force, away from Earth, that equals the pull of Earth’s gravity. SHOTLIST: Plane flying mix to CU pilot. MS plane. CU pilot attempting to hold floating objects.
Keywords
Health and medicine; Aviation; Science and technology; Military
Locations
United States of America; Texas
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
73762
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
56
Story extras:
Film clip

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