Services at Home

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1887A

Date Released

5 Aug 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Services at Home. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show the open day of the Royal Artillery at Larkhill. Also the open day of the Fleet Air Arm at Lee-on-Solent. SHOTLIST: MS young boys looking at guns at Larkhill. Shot up barrel of gun. MS boy looking through gun sight and operating controls. Zoom in boys looking at gun. GV one of guns being fired. GV shell landing near target. LS 175 mm gun on its transporter. Top shot crowd watching. LS men preparing to fire 175 mm gun. GV gun being fired. GV shell landing on hillside. GV pan Honest John rocket being fired. LS pan helicopter doing point to point. GV drone radio spotter plane in air. LS crowd watching. GV spotter plane in air. GV spotter plane coming down by parachute. LS man coming down from helicopter by rope at Royal Naval Air Station at Lee-on-Solent. Pan down, man coming down by rope. MS crowd watching. GV Tiger Moth in air. GV Spitfire in air. GV the Buccaneer strike fighter in air. MS small girls watching. GV Buccaneer strike fighter in air. GV helicopters past. GV crowd watching. GV helicopters lifting car off ground. MS crowd watching. Pan down helicopter dropping car from air. Open Day of Royal Artillery - Larkhill. Open Day of Fleet Air Arm - Lee-on-Solent.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Navy; Military

Locations

Lee-on-the-Solent; Larkhill

Card file number

89999

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher
Camera: Peter Hannan

Length of story (in feet)

272

Story extras:

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