The Giving Point
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Pressure is applied to a steel bar to test its "giving" point.
British Pathe synopsis: "Taken at the national Physical Laboratory - Teddington" Middlesex. "Everything - even husbands - has a point beyond which it "gives". Take a 20 feet steel girder, for instance..." Low angle shot of a man standing at the bottom of a steel girder pulling on some ropes. He wears an overall. The camera tilts up. "...which is bolted..." C/U of a man tightening the nuts to secure the steel girder to a platform. Dissolve into a shot of a man standing beside a large piece of machinery. He turns some levers. "...and submitted a gradual pressure." M/S of the man turning the lever, beside him is a large dial showing how many tons of pressure he is applying. Wider shot showing the steel girder - camera tilts up. The girder begins to bend. "Forty-nine tons pressure was its "giving" point." L/S of the girder bending. - Keywords
- Science and technology
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- England; Middlesex; Teddington
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- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.260
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP260
National Film Archive Catalogue
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How to cite this record
'The Giving Point', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 623, 11 May 1933. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/333192 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)