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Fire Research

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2152
Date Released
31 Aug 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A Cheque on a Cow
  2. 2Crash Barriers & Hitch Hikers
  3. 3Jehovah’s Witnesses
  4. 4Zoo Train
  5. 5Fire Research
  6. 6Jewellery Watches

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire Research. DESCRIPTION: Advanced methods of protecting inflammable goods stored in warehouses demonstrated at the Ministry of Technology’s Fire Research Station. SHOTLIST: GV Cardington airship sheds (library) angle shot boxes stacked up ready for lighting. CU boxes. Angle shot boxes stacked. SV pipes & valves for sprinkler system. SV sprinkler system around boxes. CU sprinkler valve. CU fireman starts to light straw in box. SV firemen watching. CU box burning. SV stacked up boxes burning zoom back to GV boxes burning. SV people watching demonstration. SV smoke belching out from top of boxes. SCU boxes burning. SV cameraman. Zoom back to GV stacked boxes burning. SV technicians walking about in smoke. CU water pouring on ground from sprinklers.
Keywords
Mass media; Fires; Science and technology; Safety devices
Locations
United Kingdom; Cardington
Card file number
96296
Credits:
Commentator
John Braban
Camera
Reginald William Smith
Length of story (in feet)
99
Story extras:

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