Fire Man!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1967
Date Released
13 Feb 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Fur Her - And Him
  2. 2Thirty Years Ago
  3. 3Fins Ain’t Wot They Used to Be
  4. 4Fire Man!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire Man!. DESCRIPTION: An eighty year old Welshman, inventor of a Fire Extinguisher that blankets a fire with fine powder, uses shock tactics to demonstrate it. He sets a man on fire with petrol and extinguishes him in a matter of seconds. SHOTLIST: MS Llewelyn Evans looks at fire extinguisher. CU ditto. MS fire extinguishers lined up on table top. CU ditto. MS wall soaked with petrol set alight, then flames extinguished using fire extinguisher. MCU frying pan on fire extinguished using fire extinguisher. MCU journalist Eric Wainwright’s clothes soaked in petrol. CU clothes set on fire. MCU Eric Wainwright’s clothes on fire. CU fire extinguisher started. MS fire on clothes and wall extinguished. CU Eric Wainwright’s clothes on fire again. MS fire extinguished.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Stunts; Safety devices; Newspapers; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
England; Buntingford
Card file number
92047
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Robert Hawkins
Length of story (in feet)
87
Story extras:
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