News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Will Glass Break?

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
515A
Date Released
20 Apr 1939
Date submitted
11 Apr 1939
Date submitted
13 Apr 1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: President Roosevelt and the Dictators
  2. 2News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Calcutta Memorial to King George V
  3. 3News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Royal Party Sees Balloon Barrage
  4. 4News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: A "3.7" in Action
  5. 5News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Winston Churchill, Air Commodore
  6. 6News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Twin Colts Are Rarer
  7. 7News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mules Won’t Buck
  8. 8News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Will Glass Break?
  9. 9News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Great Metropolitan
  10. 10News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The "City and Sub."
  11. 11News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The Burning of the "Paris"

Story

Story No. within this Issue
8 / 11
Section Title
News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Safety Glass Tests. DESCRIPTION: A plastic material is applied to glass to make it splinter-proof. SHOTLIST: Girls swing from a new plastic material which is put between two sheets of glass and subjected to intense pressure. The result is a splinter-proof glass. A ball is thrown at a girl who hinds behind the glass and is unharmed. Two shots show a man hitting the windscreen of his car, one with and one without a new safety glass.
Keywords
Vehicles; Women; Science and technology; Safety devices; Inventions and discoveries
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
36089
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
26
Story extras:
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