Space Capsule on Show

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1719A

Date Released

17 May 1962

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Space Capsule on Show. DESCRIPTION: At the start of a world-wide exhibition tour, Friendship VII, Colonel Glenn’s Mercury capsule, in which he orbited the Earth three times on February 20th, has just arrived in London, where it’s on view at the Science Museum in South Kensington. And here is a flash-back, the recovery of the capsule from the sea, some 200 miles north-west of Puerto Rico. SHOTLIST: MS Capsule on lorry. MS same. GV Kensington museum. MS capsule inside museum. CU picture of Colonel Glenn. CU globe. CU Glenn in capsule. CU globe. LS capsule in sea. CU Glenn. People look at capsule. CU inside of capsule. CU same. GV people queue up. LAS capsule.

Keywords

Space; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

London; Kensington

Card file number

84376

Credits:

Camera: Jim Godfrey
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

107

Story extras:

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