Squeezing for Safety

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
656
Date Released
28 Dec 1933
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
NoS Summary - a wind tunnel - woman with an umbrella is blown along by wind force.
British Pathe synopsis: C/U of what appears to be a NoSle of metal wires that has been cut or torn apart. "And we musn’t (sic) forget the wind-tunnel for aeronautical tests" Exterior L/S of strange building with large wind tunnel passing through it. Men stand on top of the tunnel. M/S of the end of the wind tunnel. C/U of the end as wind whistles through it. Pieces of paper are blown out of the end. "A home-made hurricane - 75 miles an hour!" M/S of a woman in a fur coat and hat who holds an umbrella, the wind blows it inside out. The wind is so strong that she is blown along. Incomplete.
Keywords
Science and technology
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.276
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP276
National Film Archive Catalogue
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How to cite this record

'Squeezing for Safety', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 656, 28 Dec 1933. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/333349 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)