Screen Sharpshooters
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 9
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pistol Shooting. DESCRIPTION: American Military Police in Munich are using a new pistol shooting range. A sixteen millimetre projector is used to show a moving picture for the marksman to aim at. A direct hit is signalled by the projector stopping. The US Army are trying out this invention for the first time. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the American Military Police in Munich using a new pistol shooting range. A 16 mm projector was used to show a moving picture for the marksman to aim at. A direct hit was shown by the stopping of the projector. The American Army were trying out this invention for the first time.
- Keywords
- Education and training; Weapons; Military; Inventions and discoveries
- Locations
- Germany; Munich
- Footage sources
- Germany
- Card file number
- 65971
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David Lewis Jacobs
- Length of story (in feet)
- 60
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How to cite this record
'Screen Sharpshooters', British Movietone News Issue No. 1394, 20 Feb 1956. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/20741 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)