Fire-Power - Awesome and Accurate

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1774A

Date Released

6 Jun 1963

Date Other

May 1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire-Power - Awesome and Accurate. DESCRIPTION: The United States Air Force heats it up even more with a demonstration of fire power by the latest high performance aircraft. The Sidewinder Missile, test fired from an F-104 Starwinder. The F-105’s Thunderstreaks and Thunderchiefs just some of the aircraft in the demonstration. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS aircraft (high performance). MS Sidewinder missile by F-104 Starwinder. CU pilot. Planes taking off (2 shots). Slip pan. Thunderstreak fires missile and hits (2 shots). AS village. Planes flying over same and blowing it up (3 shots). Planes fire and blow up ground (3 shots). Pan down - planes drop bombs (2 shots). Ground explodes (4 shots). GV same. AS tanks and armoured cars. MS plane drops missile. Planes blow up tanks and armoured cars (2 shots). MS same. Tanks and armoured cars blowing up (2 shots). AS explosion. GV armoured cars blown up.

Keywords

Displays; Weapons; Aviation; Explosions; Military

Locations

United States of America

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

86677

Credits:

Commentator: Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

180

Story extras:

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