Voyagers in Space

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1565
Date Released
1 Jun 1959
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Voyagers in Space
  2. 2Pick Your Career
  3. 3Theatre in the City
  4. 4Build Your Own Boat
  5. 5Air Show in Bangkok
  6. 6Singapore Independence

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Voyagers Into Space. DESCRIPTION: Almost zero hour at Cape Canaveral, and enlarged 16 mm pictures show a monkey, specially trained and conditioned for voyaging in space. Two monkeys had been selected for the job; they called them Able and Baker, a and b of-course. Each one was placed in a small compartment in the nose-cone of a Jupiter missile. Then, they went off. It was a fifteen-hundred-mile journey, reaching a height of three hundred miles and a speed of ten thousand miles an hour. Radio signals at once send out a message to the rescue teams standing by. The monkeys came down safely near Antigua. SHOTLIST: LS rocket in flight (key & title). MS scientist handling monkey. Closer same. MS monkey on cushion bed. CU same. SS same. MS monkey placed in capsule. CU same. MS capsule is sealed. CU monkey seen through porthole. LS rocket takes off. Same in flight. CU diagram - nose cone capsule is ejected. Scene above earth - rocket falls away. Diagram nose cone on parachute. Same into sea. Same emitting signals. MS nose cone being raised from sea. MS scientists with monkey. Jupiter Rocket.
Keywords
Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Space; Animals
Locations
United States of America
Footage sources
United Press International [UPI]
Card file number
77296
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
170
Story extras:
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