Water Witch
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Water Witch. DESCRIPTION: At Devonport, trials of the Navy’s Maid of all Work - a dockyard scavenger that sweeps up Flotsam, clears oil slicks and can also be used as a mobile paint sprayer. SHOTLIST: MS the Water Witch being used to pick up wood in water. MS ditto. MCU as it lifts wood out of water. LS as wood is tipped into barge. CU man at controls of water witch. TS man using water witch as platform to spray paint on harbour wall. MS ditto. CU hands on controls of water witch. MLS water witch spraying detergent onto water.
- Keywords
- Navy; Military; Inventions and discoveries
- Locations
- Devonport; England
- Card file number
- 93156
- Credits:
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- Camera
- John Wanstall
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 74
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