News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mechanical Foam for Fires

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

505

Date Released

6 Feb 1939

Date submitted

24 Jan 1939

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The "Cavalier" Disaster
2. 2News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Dr Benes Leaves for America
3. 3News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Debs Drill for Presentation
4. 4News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Gracie Fields Home from Hollywood
5. 5News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Lord Chatfield
6. 6News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mechanical Foam for Fires
7. 7News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Rushing the ARP Steel Orders
8. 8News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bombs in London Tube Stations
9. 9News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: French Precautions on Spanish Border
10. 10News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Police Boxers
11. 11News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Peter Kane’s Next Fight
12. 12News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bushmen’s Carnival

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 12

Section Title

News and Sports Pageant - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire Fighting Demonstration. DESCRIPTION: Experiments with foam to dowse fires. SHOTLIST: At Walton on Thames a demonstration is given of the fire fighting device "Air Foam". A demonstration is given of the extinguishing powers of the liquid and then the patterns which may be made with the liquid when pouring from a jet are shown.

Keywords

Science and technology; Safety devices; Civil defence; Inventions and discoveries

Footage sources

Great Britain

Card file number

35301

Credits:

Commentator

Alan Howland

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

35

Story extras:

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