Weather Satellite
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weather Satellite. DESCRIPTION: Tiros II, launched from Cape Canaveral by a Thor-Delta rocket, is a 280 pound satellite, packed with many instruments, including television cameras and radio transmitters, to send back weather news from outer space. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS Tiros II (Satellite). MS television camera’s and radio transmitters. CU same. MCU Tiros II LS the firing of Tiros II. MS map of space travel. MCU receiving apparatus. GV the weather man at the controls. GV television screen showing pictures of the clouds. MS photographs. CU photographs. CU another CU photographic drawing of Tiros II in orbit.
- Keywords
- Weather; Communications; Science and technology; Space; Television
- Locations
- United States of America
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 81460
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Length of story (in feet)
- 87
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