Britain Tracks the Moon Men

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1907
Date Released
20 Dec 1965
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Queen High and Dry
  2. 2What’s New in Pussy Cats?
  3. 3Britain Tracks the Moon Men
  4. 4News in Colour: Bertram Mills Circus

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Britain Tracks the Moon Men. DESCRIPTION: Gemini Seven blasts off and two American astronauts are on man’s longest ever flight in space. On Ascension Island, a small British possession, in the middle of the South Atlantic, one hundred million dollars worth of American tracking equipment probed the skies to record this momentous step in man’s journey into Space. SHOTLIST: Pan up Gemini 7 blasts off. GV radar masts. LAS ditto. LS ditto. MS pan domed radar tracking station. CU book on Gemini 7. MS American technician at work. CU dials. MCU American. MS map showing Ascension Island. GV Ascension Island. GV pan ditto. LAS American and British flags flying. MS Cable and Wireless Land Rover. Pan up men erecting aerial. MCU poster for Apollo rocket. Aerial shot airport runway. MS ditto. LS men walking past old fire engines. MS pan fire engines. LAS church steeple. MCU foundation stone of church. GV interior church. GV interior hospital ward. MS interior operating theatre. LS pan work in progress on site of space tracking station. LS ditto. MS ditto. GV ditto. GV Ascension Island.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Space
Locations
United States of America; Ascension Island
Footage sources
United States of America
Visnews
Card file number
90559
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
191
Story extras:
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