Aid to Espionage

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Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1825
Date Released
25 May 1964
Date submitted
10 May 1964
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Taxi Girl
  2. 2New at the Zoo
  3. 3Quite a Spectacle!
  4. 4Riding on Air
  5. 5Aid to Espionage

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aid to Espionage. DESCRIPTION: A new idea in self-defence has been developed by two Frenchmen, a sort of miniature revolver, fired by remote control. It’s designed to immobilise, not to kill, and is absolutely invisible. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS Messrs Jacquignon and Tirel in workshop. CU one of them loads gun chamber. MCU straps on miniature revolver. CU twists wrist to fire same. CU revolver fires. MS man walks into jeweller’s shop. MS same pulls out gun. MCU gun. MCU jeweller fires miniature revolver by twisting his wrist. MS bandit falls down. MS pan girl walking along street. MS bandit attacks girl. Same turns and fires. Same picks up bag and walks away. MS bandit crawls to side of street. Messrs Jacquignon and Tirel are the designers of the revolver called Shut-Up.
Keywords
Weapons; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
France; Cagnes sur Mer
Footage sources
France
Card file number
88327
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
98
Story extras:
Film clip

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