Electric Wheelchair

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2233

Date Released

20 Mar 1972

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Press Centre
2. 2Weight Lifting
3. 3Electric Wheelchair
4. 4Franka Fashions
5. 5Bob Ski & Water Ski
6. 6Bird Man

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Electric Wheelchair. DESCRIPTION: For under a hundred pounds, a new electrically driven platform designed by Lord Snowdon specifically for the disabled. This design could well be a breakthrough from wheelchairs we see today, described by Lord Snowdon as bits of old plumbing. SHOTLIST: GV demonstration of chairmobile in progress with Lord Snowdon. SV Snowdon talking to people seated in wheelchairs. SV people in wheelchairs. GV Snowdon talking to Stirling Moss about chair. CU Snowdon. SV Mr Quentin Crewe writer & journalist disabled by muscular dystrophy in chairmobile. SV ditto pan down to chairmobile moving round section of chair for Raymond Burr, he gets into chair. SV press photographers. SV Burr riding round in chair pan down. LV Snowdon standing beside Burr who is seated in chairmobile.

Keywords

Performing arts; Disabled persons

Locations

London

Card file number

97977

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

89

Story extras:

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