Meet the Gunners

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1730A
Date Released
2 Aug 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Handicap Overcome
  2. 2Meet the Gunners
  3. 3Manchester - Mosley Mix-Up
  4. 4Pilgrims on a Mountain
  5. 5European Champion
  6. 6Glorious Goodwood

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meet the Gunners. DESCRIPTION: The School of Artillery at Larkhill invited us all to drop in on them and meet the Gunners and their guns. Among those on parade were Thunderbird, Corporal and Honest John. The holders of winning programme numbers were allowed to join the select few who have actually fired an Honest John rocket. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV aerial - site. MS people looking. CU boys on tank. CU people looking at machine. Boy operating gun. MS gun revolving. MS pan parts of gun down mountain side (2 shots). CU gun assembled. LS firing range. MS firing gun. MLS same (2 shots). LS explosion. LS missile. MCU missile on trailer. MS lorry with missile. MS crowd. MS girls pushing firing button. LS missile is fired - pan flight. Honest John fired. Thunderbird and Corporal on show (not fired).
Keywords
Weapons; Military
Locations
Wiltshire; Larkhill
Footage sources
Movietone
Card file number
84818
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
101
Story extras:
Film clip

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