To Aid Survival

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1634
Date Released
26 Sep 1960
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: To Aid Survival. DESCRIPTION: The effect of weightlessness is one thing being investigated at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, at Farnborough. Another experiment, for instance, is to simulate the effect of an aircraft spinning. All these will aid survival, and so will a self-inflatable life raft, seen here demonstrated by a girl. SHOTLIST: MS man preparing to go under water. MS man seated in apparatus being lowered into water. MS same adjusting goggles. GV man head still showing above water. MCU man making notes under water. MCU man doing experiment. CU man with apparatus in his mouth. MS the experiment is to simulate the effect on an aircraft spinning. MS man spinning in apparatus. MS man spinning in apparatus. MS raft inflating. MS man pulling string. MS raft inflating. CU raft. MS raft blowing up. MS girl in raft (radio equipped). MS girl in raft. CU girl wrapping raft around her.
Keywords
Health and medicine; Aviation; Communications; Science and technology; Safety devices; Military
Locations
England
Card file number
81115
Credits:
Commentator
Jeffrey K. Shearley
Camera
Ken Taylor
Length of story (in feet)
98
Story extras:
Film clip

• 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
You are here: Search results (70)  >  Mechanical Man Has Eye for Pretty Girl  >  Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: International Ends in Draw  >  France Grieves for Aristide Briand  >  Royal Tour. Gib Says Hail and Farewell  >  Reports: Chief Scout in France  >  Moore Defeats Parker  >  Mr Bevin Opens Rest Home for Bermondsey’s War Workers  >  Movietone Surveys Dominion Capital  >  News Flashes - Stop Press  >  Best Cocktail Wins Trophy  >  Speech against Militarism Cleveland, Ohio  >  Endurance Flight  >  Variety Club Tops a Million  >  News Flashes - Stop Press  >  Texas City Disaster  >  Undergraduates Steeplechase  >  Debutantes Grace Big Charity Ball  >  Princess Mary  >  The Awful Effect Of Too Much Pancake!  >  War Dance for His Royal Highness  >  Vienna - England’s 3 - 2 Soccer Victory  >  Faster Than Ever!  >  Samson Junior  >  News in Flashes  >  Slum Clearance  >  Wild Ducks Get a Home  >  Alexandra Day  >  Girl Guides Rally In Hyde Park  >  French "Grand National"  >  Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Downfall of Japan Conference  >  Italian Prisoners Arrive in South Africa  >  The Taff Swim  >  Venice "Goes Dry" to Clean Canals  >  Dancing  >  News Flashes from Everywhere  >  Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Attacker Breaks Air Record  >  Fat Stock Comes to Town  >  Fashions  >  Movietone News Paragraphs: Paris - Fashions for dogs  >  Fire  >  Barbara Dead  >  Names and News: Sudanese - Leave Khartoum for London  >  Duchess Presents Queen’s Colour  >  Reports in Brief  >  C of I Trailer: Influenzal People  >  Reports in Brief  >  Victory This Month, Says General Giraud  >  Proving Jack Tar is Good Mixer  >  Jewish Regiment Marches Through City, Lord Mayor Takes Salute at Mansion House  >  The First Leg of the Spring Double  >  The Famous Crooked Spire  >  To Aid Survival

How to cite this record

'To Aid Survival', British Movietone News Issue No. 1634, 26 Sep 1960. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/23786 (Accessed 07 Mar 2026)