Best Inventions

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2023A

Date Released

14 Mar 1968

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Best Inventions. DESCRIPTION: Some remarkable new ideas on show at the Inventors’ Exhibition in Belgium. SHOTLIST: MS road sign being moved in all directions, it returns to upright position. MS emergency fire escape ladder unfolded from against wall. CU pan ladder. MCU man operating hands and arms designed for limbless children. CU ditto. CU as hand grasps pair of scissors held up operator. MCU scissors transferred to the other hand. MCU man fixes harness of small mobile crane to himself. CU man hoists himself up by crane. MS ditto. CU man swings round over bath. MS ditto, he lowers himself into bath and undoes harness.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Inventions and discoveries; Exhibitions and shows; Disabled persons

Locations

Belgium; Brussels

Footage sources

France

Card file number

93317

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

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