Rocket News

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1538
Date Released
24 Nov 1958
Date submitted
21 Nov 1958
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Report from Ethiopia
  2. 2Rocket News
  3. 3British Boxing Win
  4. 4Trains Pile Up
  5. 5Dispatch from Sudan
  6. 6Hop on a Bike

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rocket News. DESCRIPTION: New Jersey, where the electronic-brain-centre of an air defence system is always on the alert to protect the densely populated area of Greater New York. This one is, in fact, thousands of miles from New Jersey: a BOMARC missile base, revealing the high degree of push-button defence, already achieved in the States. Controlled from the centre in New Jersey, the missile takes off on its mission of interception. And here, about to be recovered from the sea, is a capsule from the nose cone of a THOR missile, fired from Cape Canaveral. It’s had a journey of a thousand miles at speeds greater than ten thousand miles an hour. From a tape recorder inside a protective covering of plastic foam, important information will be obtained about space flight conditions and missile performance. Now, to a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, which has just been visited by Prince Philip. It is here that the first RAF Air Defence Missile Squadron is being formed, and it is now equipped with the Bristol-Ferranti Bloodhound weapon system. His Royal Highness was given a demonstration of the automatic system of precision tracking radar. SHOTLIST: MS rocket on stand. MS man on telephone. CU same. MS same - fade to MS rocket moves into position and is fired. MS rocket in flight - slip pan to CU capsule in water. TS man fishing for capsule. CU opening capsule CU removing contents. Same - slip pan to MS rocket on stand. Closer Duke of Edinburgh talking. GV group look at rocket. MS same. MS rocket. LS same. MS group look at rocket. CU radar scanner. MS rocket turns on stand. CU same. LS same.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Weapons; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Space; Military
Locations
United States of America; England
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
75556
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Camera
Robert Turner
Length of story (in feet)
182
Story extras:
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