Apes Blaze the Trail

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1696
Date Released
4 Dec 1961
Date submitted
4 Nov 1961
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Apes Blaze the Trail. DESCRIPTION: This is Ham, whose exploit last February took him right up into space. Another chimp, called Enos, has done even better on behalf of American spacemanship, it was his destiny to make a double orbit of the Earth at about 70,000 miles an hour. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS man with chimp. MCU ditto. MS chimp. MCU ditto. MS two men and chimp. MCU chimp. Monkey’s name Ham.
Keywords
Space; Animals
Locations
United States of America; Cape Canaveral
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
83547
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
59
Story extras:

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