Learning on ScreenHydraulics to the Rescue
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hydraulics to the Rescue. DESCRIPTION: A new sound on the new roads, far more forceful than the Mersey Beat. It’s the beat-beat-beat of the multiple pile-up. But new equipment has been developed to speed up the rescue of the injured. The Hertfordshire Fire Brigade gave us a demonstration of the equipment which uses hydraulic power to open up a vehicle that’s been badly crushed in an accident. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV traffic on motorway (2 shots). CU still of crashed car. CU another. CU still of crashed coach. CU sign Slow Accident. GV police car draws into kerb. MS same. CU flashing light on police car. MCU pan body carried from car. MCU policeman placing cones on road. GV racing car overturns on track. GV crashed car up tree. GV pan fire engine arrives. MS firemen carrying equipment. CU fitting jack to car. MS firemen pumping hydraulic jack. CU same. CU jack expanding in car. CU wedge jack forced between door and body of car. CU firemen pumping. CU door forced open. GV door opened wide. MCU body taken from car. GV firemen carry body to stretcher.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Safety devices; Emergency services; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Hertfordshire; Watford
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 87885
- Credits:
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- Camera
- John Abbott
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 156
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