Survival Trials

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1643

Date Released

28 Nov 1960

Date submitted

24 Nov 1960

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Bright Lights
2. 2The Tops of Ice
3. 3Loot for the Cops?
4. 4Survival Trials
5. 5Up Hill Work
6. 6England Beat Wales
7. *Tragedy in the Congo

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Survival Trials. DESCRIPTION: Jumping down from HMS Plover, volunteers set out on survival trials off Portland. The idea is to find out whether the Navy’s life-saving equipment is still the best available. During preliminary trials, men stayed in the rafts for 48 hours. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV 2 sailors packing survival supplies into kit-bag. CU same. MS sailors tying up kit-bag. MS sailors lift kitbag and throw it into the water. MS sailor jumps in after it. MS another from HMS Plover. MS another GV sailor doing back-stroke. GV sailor swimming towards kitbag. MS kitbag. GV same. CU 2 sailors on kitbag. MS sailors watching from HMS Plover. MS sailor helped aboard. MLS Medical Officer feeling sailor’s pulse. MCU same. CU sailor with drink.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Health and medicine; Safety devices; Navy; Military

Locations

England

Card file number

81446

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Length of story (in feet)

78

Story extras:

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