Vigilant is the Word!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1675
Date Released
10 Jul 1961
Date submitted
7 Jul 1961
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vigilant Is the Word Tank Missile. DESCRIPTION: The Vickers Vigilant is a new anti-tank guided missile. Together with its launcher, it can be carried by one man. Setting up and preparing to fire takes half a minute, and it can penetrate the most heavily armoured tank. This demonstration at Warminster showed hit after hit. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS soldier preparing to fire Vigilant guided missile. CU same. GV same. CU missile. MCU officer looking through binoculars. LS missile - trees in background. GV soldiers looking on. CU soldier holding missile controls. CU officer signalling. GV pan missile fired. CU soldier controlling flight. LS missile hits target. GV missile fired. GV missile heading for target. MLS missile hits target.
Keywords
Weapons
Locations
Wiltshire; Warminster
Card file number
82812
Credits:
Commentator
Jeffrey K. Shearley
Camera
John Davies
Length of story (in feet)
84
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Vigilant is the Word!', British Movietone News Issue No. 1675, 10 Jul 1961. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/24178 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)