Scramble Speed-Up

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1708

Date Released

26 Feb 1962

Date submitted

20 Feb 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Home and Dry!
2. 2It’s a Strange World
3. 3Scramble Speed-Up
4. 4Year of the Tiger (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scramble Speed-Up. DESCRIPTION: Early warning and a quick getaway by the V-Bombers, that’s the British deterrent. Now, a device for starting all 4 engines of a V-Bomber at once has earned a thousand pound award for Squadron-Leader Dixon. He’s the Technical Staff Officer who invented it. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV V Bombers. MLS line of V Bombers. MLS inventor with new starting system. CU Squadron Leader Dixon (inventor). CU control panel. MS planes’ engines start up. MS disconnecting. MCU men pull blocks away. GV (5 shots) V Bombers taking off and in flight. Victors - Valiants - Vulcans.

Keywords

Aviation; Military

Locations

United Kingdom

Card file number

83946

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Mark McDonald

Length of story (in feet)

89

Story extras:

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