Learning on ScreenComputer Carrier - Warship of Tomorrow
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Computer Carrier. DESCRIPTION: The aircraft carrier Eagle which was taken out of service to be modernised has been completely rebuilt. This rebuilding plan cost thirty one million pounds and took five years to complete. The nerve centre of Eagle is a complex system of electronic computers, which work out half a million sums a minute. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS aircraft carrier Eagle at sea. Various shots of same. TS landing deck with helicopters on. LS helicopter landing on deck. MS Captain Empson looking through binoculars. LS same on the bridge of aircraft carrier. MS control room, men watching computer radar screens etc. MS man pushing buttons. MS man with headphones on. MS men watching computer screens. LS radar. LS same. Various interiors of men at computers in control room. MS man entering door. MS sign on door Air Conditioned Space. CU same. Interior control room. MS man operating computer. LS plane lands on deck. MS same. MS plane takes off from deck. Panning shot of same. Shot of plane in the air. MS men on deck. GV plane lands on deck. MS plane (towards camera) takes off. Shots of 2 planes in the air. GV aircraft carrier Eagle at sea.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Navy; Military
- Locations
- English Channel
- Card file number
- 88995
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 260
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