Leave It to Electronics

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1750

Date Released

17 Dec 1962

Date submitted

13 Dec 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Big Job for World’s Fastest
2. 2Dreadnought on Trial
3. 3Leave It to Electronics
4. 4Christmas is Coming

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Leave It to Electronics. DESCRIPTION: The Decca Radar has produced a system to get you around traffic electronically. Detector cables in the roadway transmit impulses from vehicles passing over them to small relay boxes close by. The signals then travel via ordinary telephone lines to a control centre. Besides visual information the system also produces a graph for analysis. So you’d have city-wide control of the traffic flow all done automatically via computers from traffic lights. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS traffic starts from lights. CU traffic past camera (2 shots). CU tape across road. CU box by side of road. MS control room. CU map (2 shots). CU traffic. CU dial showing density of traffic per hour. CU map. CU pan - traffic. CU dial showing density of traffic. CU traffic. CU zoom in on dial indicating mph of traffic. MS traffic.

Keywords

Transport; Communications

Locations

London; Parliament Square

Card file number

85668

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Ronald E. Collins

Length of story (in feet)

128

Story extras:

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