Fire Research
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
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:
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- Commentator
- John Braban
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 99
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