To Aid Survival
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: To Aid Survival. DESCRIPTION: The effect of weightlessness is one thing being investigated at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, at Farnborough. Another experiment, for instance, is to simulate the effect of an aircraft spinning. All these will aid survival, and so will a self-inflatable life raft, seen here demonstrated by a girl. SHOTLIST: MS man preparing to go under water. MS man seated in apparatus being lowered into water. MS same adjusting goggles. GV man head still showing above water. MCU man making notes under water. MCU man doing experiment. CU man with apparatus in his mouth. MS the experiment is to simulate the effect on an aircraft spinning. MS man spinning in apparatus. MS man spinning in apparatus. MS raft inflating. MS man pulling string. MS raft inflating. CU raft. MS raft blowing up. MS girl in raft (radio equipped). MS girl in raft. CU girl wrapping raft around her.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Safety devices; Military
- Locations
- England
- Card file number
- 81115
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- Ken Taylor
- Length of story (in feet)
- 98
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