Live Wire

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2105
Date Released
6 Oct 1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News Scene: In France, Concorde flies supersonically for the first time ... In West Germany ... everything points to Willy Brandt as the future new Chancellor. In Gibraltar ... the people pledge anew their allegiance to Britain.
  2. 2Live Wire
  3. 3Looking at the Weather
  4. 4News in Colour: Plastic Pubs

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Live Wire. DESCRIPTION: Wearing a specially designed suit that conducts electricity, a linesman demonstrates the new technique that allows working on Power Lines without switching off the current. He’s charged with four hundred thousand Volts. SHOTLIST: GV pylons. Zoom in MLS sign on pylon ‘Danger’. 5 shots engineer making ready to maintain high voltage wires. MS engineer begins to climb pylon. LAS zoom out engineer climbing. CU man watching. LAS engineer hangs suspended from harness attached to pylon. MS daring cameraman strapped to pylon. A to G engineer climbing about of wires. LAS ditto. LAS pylon. TS engineer on wires. MS engineer on pylon. LAS engineer climbs into cradle. LAS long shot ditto. LAS engineer starts to move along wires in cradle. LS engineer suspended in cradle. 3 shots engineer pulls up component on a chain.
Keywords
Mass media; Industry and manufacture; Safety devices
Locations
United Kingdom
Footage sources
Pathe
Card file number
95202
Credits:
Commentator
Jeffrey K. Shearley
Length of story (in feet)
128
Story extras:
Film clip

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