Measuring in the Round

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1816A

Date Released

26 Mar 1964

Date submitted

17 Mar 1964

Date Other

Mar 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Wales Draw with France
2. 2Measuring in the Round
3. 3Los Angeles Fire Trap
4. 4Cyprus - ‘Brush Fire’ Still Burns

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Measuring in the Round. DESCRIPTION: How round is round, and does it matter? Take a billiard ball for instance. You’d think it was perfectly spherical. It looks like it, and feels like it, too. But now measure its surface with a new instrument, developed by Rank Taylor Hobsons, the Talyrond. And you will see that the surface of the billiard ball has ‘mountains’ and ‘valleys’, though they measure little more than a millionth of an inch. In industry absolute accuracy is vital for moving parts of machinery like ball bearings, car cylinders etc. The Talyrond is the answer. The Talysurf is an instrument for measuring the profile of a given object, and it magnifies the surface of a human hair up to fifty thousand times. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU billiard balls on table. MCU one ball picked up. CU same in hand of woman. MCU woman walks away. Ball handed to man at machine. GV ball placed on measuring machine - called the Talyrond, (devised by Rank Taylor Hobsons). CU graph being traced. CU stylus moves over ball. CU same. CU graph being traced. CU man looks at graph. CU man takes graph from machine. CU graph. CU picture of cylinder block. CU stylus measuring internal circumference of cylinder bore. CU man watches graph being traced. CU graph being traced. GV man at Talyrond. CU woman pulls hair from her head. GV same hands hair to man. CU hair placed on piece of white card. MCU hair placed on machine for measuring - this machine is called Talysurf. CU stylus placed over hair. CU graph being traced. GV Talysurf and pan to graph. CU graph being traced.

Keywords

Science and technology

Locations

London

Card file number

88103

Credits:

Camera

John Abbott

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

155

Story extras:

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