Meals by Radio

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1869

Date Released

29 Mar 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meals By Radio. DESCRIPTION: Developed in the United States is a completely new approach to preparing and cooking meals. After being prepared the meals are sent out to restaurants deep frozen. When a customer chooses his meal, it’s taken from the deep-freeze and placed in a special oven. The oven uses radio waves at the frequencies used in radar. It takes about forty seconds to heat a complete meal. SHOTLIST: MS couple arrive and sit down, waitress brings menu. CU man reading menu. CU menu. CU waitress. MS couple and waitress preparing meal. CU waitress hands preparing meal. MCU waitress lifts food into microwave cooker. CU food in cooker. CU controls being set. CU stopwatch. CU waitress sets the trays and then turns to the oven. MS waitress takes food from the cooker. CU some of the different meals. MCU meals on the table. CU man eating. CU woman eating.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Science and technology

Locations

Hayes; Middlesex

Card file number

89501

Credits:

Camera: John Mould
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

149

Story extras:

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