News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bomb Deflection
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 13
- Section Title
- News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bomb Deflector at Hounslow. DESCRIPTION: Tests take place at Hounslow. SHOTLIST: At Hounslow a new device for deflecting bombs is tested. It consists of concrete balls about the same size as a football which are placed above the building and have the effect of deflecting the delayed action bomb before the explosion occurs. A crane is used to lift a bomb-shaped weight which is allowed to fall on imitation buildings.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Safety devices; Civil defence; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 35513
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 23
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How to cite this record
'News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bomb Deflection', British Movietone News Issue No. 506, 13 Feb 1939. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/9681 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)