Space Race Hots Up

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1732A

Date Released

16 Aug 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Space Race Hots Up
2. 2Holiday with Adventure
3. 3For the Young of All Ages
4. 4Wings with a Difference
5. 5Berlin Wall - One Year Old

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Space Race Hots Up. DESCRIPTION: The orbiting major Nikolayev and his partner Colonel Popovich have gone on creating record after record. Apparently, their mission is to test the reactions of the human body to weightlessness over a prolonged period of several days. Here, Major Nikolayev is seen concentrating hard on threading a needle, while in Moscow, pictures of the space-men were in tremendous demand as they continued logging day after day in space. SHOTLIST: Key scene. (Fade out) CU Major Nikolayev. CU Major Nikolayev threading a needle. MS people looking at photo of Nikolayev. MS man holds up photo of Nikolayev. (2 shots) crowd. CU man pan down to Major Nikolayev.

Keywords

Space

Locations

Moscow; Russia

Card file number

84891

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

59

Story extras:

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