Operation - See Eight
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Operation - See Eight. DESCRIPTION: A Demonstration by the Emergency Services, of what they would do in event of an airliner crashing into a high building in the city. Movietone looks back to 1945 when this happened in New York when a bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. SHOTLIST: GV New York in fog, pan to Empire State Building. Air to air American Mitchell Bomber. Animated scene showing intended route of aircraft and actual route. Mix to air to air shot of bomber. Air to ground shot of approaching Empire State Building in fog. MS ditto. LAS top of ESB after crash. GV ditto. MS firemen fighting fire. MS damaged section of building. GV ESB. MS firemen working in wreckage. MS ditto. GV section of aircraft in building. MCU propeller of aircraft in building wall. TS body on ledge. MS body placed into ambulance. GV Britannic House, London, largest building in City of London. MS Operation See 8 plan and diagram. CU ditto showing plane embedded in building. MS smoke rising from building. GV Fire Brigade arrives. MS brigade run out hoses. CU hose playing on building. LAS ditto. Pan firemen and hoses. CU firemen with walkie-talkie. LAS body lowered from building. MS body carried into ambulance. CU smoke pouring from building. GV people evacuate building. MS ditto. MS people into ambulances. MS casualty in ambulance. MS St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Accident Unit. CU casualty. MS first aiders with casualty. CU ditto. CU casualty carried into ambulance. MS ditto. Pan GV ambulances drive off. Section 1 - New York Disaster 1945 - Library material. Section 2 - Operation See 8 - mock-up plane crash.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Weather; Aviation; Communications; Accidents and disasters; Military; Newsreels
- Locations
- London; New York; United States of America; United Kingdom; Britannic House, London
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 93838
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 200
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