Road Surfacers

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2282

Date Released

26 Feb 1973

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Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Road Surfacers. DESCRIPTION: A new invention with a burner which softens the tar and is therefore pollution-free. It makes the whole re-surfacing operation practically automatic. SHOTLIST: SV old type road surfacers burning off tar & belching smoke. CU burner. SV man operating old machine. SCU rotating cutters of old machine. GV old machine belching smoke. CU burner. CU flames and smoke. SV ditto, pan up with smoke. GV new smokeless machine, chipping going into lorry. SV workman watching smokeless burner. CU side of new road surfacer with name Road Razar. SCU showing new type cutters. 2 shots showing cutters rotating under machine as it moves slowly along road. CU cutters. SLV new surfacer. SV conveyor belt taking broken tar to lorry. SV tar chips tipping into lorry from conveyor belt. AS ditto. GV lorry trailing behind machine. CU cutters. SV underneath of machine showing cutters. GV road which has been prepared by new road surfacer.

Keywords

Transport; Science and technology

Locations

London

Card file number

98844

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher
Camera: Paul Kavanagh

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