Learning on ScreenCranwell - Jet Birthplace
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jet Birthplace. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Air Force College at Cranwell. It was here, 35 years ago, that a young cadet wrote a thesis that was to start a revolution in flying. That cadet is now Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, and he recently returned to open a new building: 33 lecture rooms and 18 laboratories to help Cranwell maintain its leadership in training young men for the jet age. Every inventor faces trials and tribulations. A flashback reminds us that Sir Frank and his team accepted danger, too, during those early experimental test runs over 20 years ago. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV Cranwell. LS same. MS Sir Whittle arrives with officials. MS party enter building. MS Frank looks round exhibition of engines. CU Whittle. MCU same. CU same. MS Sir Frank poses by his engine. CU notice Frank indicating points of engine (3 shots) Frank experiments on his engine. CU engine. MS Sir Frank and assistants. CU dial. CU hand moving lever. GV room in which experiment is taking place. Dial (3 shots) assistants back away from engine. (2 shots) explosion of engine. CU dial. CU engine alight. CU Sir Frank Whittle. LS pan - jets across the sky.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Inventions and discoveries
- Locations
- Cranwell
- Card file number
- 85266
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Macdonald Hobley
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 122
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