The Sound of Tomorrow

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1873
Date Released
26 Apr 1965
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1'Copter Plays Steeplejack
  2. 2Cutting a Breakthrough
  3. 3The Sound of Tomorrow
  4. 4Night-Life Underwater

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Sound of Tomorrow. DESCRIPTION: The RAF give a demonstration of annoyance value to representatives of the government and of airlines at home and overseas. They demonstrated the noise of a Comet as it flies low. The sound of tomorrow is concerned with the Supersonic airliner. Planes like the Concorde, which will fly three times faster than the aircraft of today. At supersonic speeds Concordes will build up a pressure wave, this will give rise to the Sonic Bang. SHOTLIST: LS pan jet passing over houses. LS pan ditto. MS woman closing window. MS noise aerials in background. MS pan down aerial. MS airline and government representatives. CU coloured man. CU government representative. MS 3 RAF officers. LS pan Comet passing over. CU sound measuring machine and operator. CU noise meter. CU Mr Jenkins. MCU Mr Jenkins with other officials. MS pan Comet passing over. CU Concorde model. CU ditto. CU screen of noise machine. GV village street. GV fields pan to noise operator in glasshouse. MS family place hands over their ears. CU noise meter. MS noise machine operator in glasshouse. CU Concorde model.
Keywords
Aviation; Science and technology; Military
Locations
Croydon
Card file number
89618
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
144
Story extras:

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