News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1219

Date Released

13 Oct 1952

Date submitted

13 Oct 1952

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Car Endurance
• 2. Mono-Rail Test
• 3. Another Water Speed Try-Out
• 4. Haile Selassie Visits Eritrea
• 5. Chaplin is Guest of Variety Club
• 6. Mr Churchill at Party Conference
• *Cardiff’s Tin Mill

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mono Rail Trains. DESCRIPTION: There are inventors with one-track minds, and a mono-railway designed in Germany and demonstrated near Cologne is anticipated to reach speeds of 180 mph. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Driver closes down roof of train. Various shots of the monorail train (model) speeding round.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Cardiff.

Keywords

Railways; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

Cologne

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

57938

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

44

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive