Hovercraft Disaster
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hovercraft Disaster. DESCRIPTION: Five people die in Britain’s first hovercraft disaster. The tragedy happened in the Solent. Twenty-one others were rescued. It is believed that high winds tipped her over. SHOTLIST: GV frogman preparing to go down to examine sunken wreck of hovercraft. LV frogman jumping into water from boat. SV frogman coming up to surface. SV 2 flags on rescue. SV frogman climbing aboard boat. CU pan to GV as Hovertravel SRN6 leaving base & going into sea.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Transport; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Portsmouth; Southsea
- Card file number
- 97950
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 78
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