Learning on ScreenDesign Awards
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Design Awards. DESCRIPTION: The British Design Council has given Awards to new Safety ideas including an under-rider fitted to lorries which absorbs the impact when hit by a car. SHOTLIST: GV street pan to mini-bus which has won an award. MS interior steering wheel and dashboard. MS people entering bus. MCU low entrance step of bus. MS bus with wide entrance - door closes. GV interior. MS lorry driver leaves his vehicle and walks to side panel to open it. MS boxes in lorry - man reaches for them unsuccessfully. MS man unclips side panel to support lever underneath. MS man steps onto panel to make unloading easier. MS boxes being lifted down. MS driver of car crashes into back of lorry (driver’s view). MS ditto but is prevented from crashing as it is prevented by an award-winning device attached underneath the lorry’s rear end. MCU ditto. Reverses and drives into lorry again. MS (from car) car towards lorry. MCU cars stopped by device. MS from under lorry as car reverses and hits lorry again. CU car reversing. MS lorry reversing towards car. CU lorry hits car bumper with device. MS driver of car storms out of car to look at damage. MS sees no apparent damage, smiles and gets into car.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Safety devices
- Locations
- London
- Card file number
- 79/47
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Denis White
- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 173
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