Discovery by Chance

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1749

Date Released

10 Dec 1962

Date submitted

5 Dec 1962

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Discovery By Chance. DESCRIPTION: A large electrical industries group in London, trying to develop a cheap luminous panel for motor cars, discovered instead an electronic photographic plate, sensitive to light and invisible radiation, which could revolutionise the whole technique of taking X-Ray pictures. After the exposure the picture becomes instantly visible without any form of chemical development. Made of steel the result is durable enough to be re-used ten thousand times. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV laboratory. MCU key is placed on plate. CU plate. MCU battery connected to plate. CU bulb is fitted and flashed over the plate (2 shots). GV laboratory, spraying plate (2 shots). MS plate placed in furnace for baking (2 shots). CU temperature gauge, plate removed from furnace, hand switches on light. CU plate with image of key on it. (This is a new type of X-Ray plate).

Keywords

Inventions and discoveries

Locations

Middlesex; Enfield

Card file number

85608

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

107

Story extras:

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