News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Parking and Underground Shelters - A Practical Illustration

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

507

Date Released

20 Feb 1939

Date submitted

15 Feb 1939

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Cardinals Conclave
2. 2News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: M Leon Berard for Burgos
3. 3News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Henshaw Welcomed in Hometown
4. 4News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Royal Duchess in Nottingham
5. 5News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Quads
6. 6News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Canada Sends Radium
7. 7News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Relief by Bomber to Stricken Chile
8. 8News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: British Seamen Grow Wings
9. 9News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The "Bismarck" Launched
10. 10News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Parking and Underground Shelters - A Practical Illustration
11. 11News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Inventions on Exhibition

Story

Story No. within this Issue

10 / 11

Section Title

News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Auger Car Park Model. DESCRIPTION: A new idea for an underground Car Park which could be used as an Air Raid Shelter in wartime. SHOTLIST: General views of the model demonstrating the Auger method of mechanically parking cars underground for use in the proposed trenches under London Squares. Air Raid Shelter At Millbank - CARD 35581 DVC PRO TAPE 342 IN: 02:12:48:00 OUT: 02:13:44:00 At Millbank, in London, one of the new Anderson Air Raid shelters is on show. People enter and sit around an oil stove. -THIS MATERIAL IS NOT IN STORY AND NOT ON TAPE

Keywords

Vehicles; Safety devices; Civil defence; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Footage sources

Great Britain

Card file number

35361

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

103

Story extras:

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