Learning on ScreenTraining Topics
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Training Topics. DESCRIPTION: This is a new kind of tennis trainer, which can be adjusted to play pretty well any shot the coach requires. Of Australian design, it’s seen at work at Stansted in Essex. Here, youngsters, who aim to be Wimbledon winners one day, find the tennis robot invaluable. In Sydney, there’s a car to train athletes. Holding on to the tow bar, runner John Barrett is using this novel method of lengthening stride and increasing speed. Then, Barbara Clift practises this new method. SHOTLIST: SCU machine. CU machine. CU machine being loaded with tennis balls. CU tennis balls passing through machine. MS tennis players practising. MS tennis machine firing balls. MS tennis players. LS same. CU tennis balls passing through machine. LS tennis players. MS tennis machine. MS tennis players - machine in background. Slip pan - CU - LS car starts and runners hold onto tow bar. MS car and runners moving. SCU measuring runners ace. CU ditto. MS girl running with car. LS ditto. MS cow in field. LS runner with car.
- Keywords
- Sport; Education and training; Vehicles; Children; Athletics; Inventions and discoveries; Newsreels
- Locations
- Australia; England
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 79827
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Camera
- John Davies
- Camera
- Samuelson
- Length of story (in feet)
- 138
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