Eye in the Sky

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1611

Date Released

18 Apr 1960

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Eye in the Sky. DESCRIPTION: Tiros I stands for Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite, and it marks a new adventure in space: weather observation. It’s packed full of scientific instruments, and the most important of all are two Vidicon cameras. A Thor-Able carried Tiros I in its nose, at the historic launching from Cape Canaveral. A diagram shows how the last stage of the rocket shot the satellite into orbit round the globe. The information it gathers is sent back to earth. This American space probe with a difference was explained to President Eisenhower at the White House, together with what the satellite saw. SHOTLIST: GV Tiros I rocket. MS scientific instruments. CU Vidicon camera. CU same. TS same. GV a Thor-Able rocket takes off. CU diagramatic chart - rocket shoots satellite into orbit. CU chart showing orbit course. CU same (2). GV radar aerials. CU chart - satellite course. MS President Eisenhower. SCU same (2).

Keywords

Politics and government; Weather; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Space; Television

Locations

United States of America

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

79800

Credits:

Commentator: Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

138

Story extras:

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