Ready for Blast-Off

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1737A
Date Released
20 Sep 1962
Date submitted
19 Sep 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Great Tradition
  2. 2It Only Stops for Her!
  3. 3Ready for Blast-Off
  4. 4Brighton - Seaside Speedsters
  5. 5Hats off for Hill

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ready for Blast-Off. DESCRIPTION: On the pad at the MARE on Spade Adam is Blue Streak, first stage in a rocket launcher for Europe’s Space Programme. With its two upper stages being developed in France and West Germany a hundred pound package could be sent to the Moon. Only three feet long it cost all of three pounds to build. Three Dorset schoolboys are the key men and they spent 18 months developing Wanderer the First. 17 year old Peter Stokes sent her off and she reached a full hundred feet. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MLS gantry. MLS gantry moves back from rocket. (3 shots) interior control room. (2 shots) man looks through periscope. LAS rocket motor fires. GV ditto. GV Salisbury Plain. MS boys walk with rocket. (6 shots) rocket. CU sign Danger. (2 shots) firing button being pushed. GV rocket fired. MS boys rush to collect rocket. (2 shots) boys look at rocket.
Keywords
Space; Youth
Locations
Wiltshire; Larkhill
Card file number
85154
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
137
Story extras:
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