Learning on ScreenLike a Diamant in the Sky
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
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- 1 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Like a Diamant in the Sky. DESCRIPTION: The launching of France’s Diamant Rocket at the rocket base at Hamaguir in the Sahara Desert. Mounted on its Diamant rocket, the Diapason satellite is the third to be launched by the French. This is the first to be sent on a scientific mission. It will be used for surveys of the earth’s surface and in atmospheric tests. SHOTLIST: Air to ground rocket launching site. Air to ground ditto. Air to ground rocket gantry. MS Arabs herding their camels, gantry in the background. MS ditto. LA looking up the rocket. MS cameraman. TS technicians prepare rocket for flight. TS ditto. MCU capsule. Pull out radar bowl. MS radar bowl scanning. MS larger radar mast scanning. MS control desk. MS two television sets showing launch area. CU countdown clock. CU man’s finger presses firing button. LS rocket ignites. MS cameraman filming. LS rocket takes off. MS serviceman tracking rocket on self sighting telescope. Pan up rocket. MS serviceman tracking rocket on self sighting telescope. Pan up rocket. MS serviceman tracking rocket on self sighting telescope. LA rocket. MS radar bowl. LA rocket disappearing.
- Keywords
- Weapons; Space
- Locations
- Sahara Desert; Hamaguir
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 90824
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 119
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