Learning on ScreenWalkie Talkie to the Rescue
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Walkie Talkie to the Rescue. DESCRIPTION: Leicester, in the Midlands has produced a walkie talkie system that keeps the city’s midwives in constant touch with their headquarters. The scheme has cost 10,000 pounds but the radios are expected to last 25 years without replacement. A variation of the same theme from the Ministry of Aviation Dog School, one of the dogs demonstrates the technique of getting dogs to trace a crashed aircraft and locate survivors. SHOTLIST: Man walks to phone and lifts receiver. CU man’s hand dialling number. CU man, while he waits for a reply. Man at ambulance HQ answering call. CU 1st man talking. MCU 1st man talking (from back). CU ambulance man’s hands tearing page from the message pad. MS phone operator hands message to radio operator. CU radio operators hands pressing buttons on transmitter unit. CU midwife driving. CU radio receiver lying on seat of car. MS midwife pulls up to receive message. CU midwife’s hand lifting radio from seat. MCU midwife listening to message. CU midwife speaking. CU radio operator speaking. CU transmitter unit. Radio operator (from back). CU midwife pushes aerial down. CU Bembridge Close nameplate. MLS car pulls up outside house. Man runs out. MS man collects midwife’s bag. MS man walks into his wife’s room carrying the midwife’s bag followed by the midwife. MS Bill Reid straps the receiving unit onto Rusty’s back. Bill checking harness. Bill and Rusty walk to the training ground. CU Bill talking into mouthpiece of transmitter. MS Bill in foreground. Rusty romping off in background. MS Rusty picking his way through high grass. Dog turns. Bill talking into transmitter. Rusty turning right and left. Rusty finds the man lying in the grass.
- Keywords
- Communications; Animals
- Locations
- Leicester; Farnborough
- Card file number
- 89346
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 227
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