Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Secret Weapons in Australian Desert

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
999
Date Released
26 Jul 1948
Date submitted
20 Jul 1948
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 7
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Long Range Weapons. DESCRIPTION: A Testing Centre for rockets has been set up in the Australian desert. SHOTLIST: KS MS passenger plane. Aerial - press & newsreel reporters seated in plane, looking down at barren country below. Official goes round plane, pulling down blinds. MS Pimba Railway Station. MS sign ‘Pimba’. Sign reads Beware of Engine. GV single line railway track. MS building under construction. MS Lt General Evetts and Brigadier Edgar (in uniform). Maps of the countryside etc. Various tools, rollers etc. being towed over the land to churn same up. MS rocket starting his flight and crashing a little way off. LS explosion. SV supersonic rocket speeding along rails and crashes into target, same exploding. Into camera and under camera - rocket along rails, almost too fast for eye to follow.
Keywords
Weapons
Locations
Australia; Pimba
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
50524
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
158
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Secret Weapons in Australian Desert', British Movietone News Issue No. 999, 26 Jul 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/15226 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)