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Title: CATAPULT LAUNCH TESTS

Reference number: 6310

Date: 1955*

Sponsor: [ Brown Brothers Ltd. (?)]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.26 mins

Description: Royal Navy tests on the catapult launch system. Close ups of aircraft taking off and landing, equipment. Small model test plane with FOE1WHAT4 painted on the side. [Image blanks in and out between shots].

Shotlist: plane takes off from aircraft carrier (0.08) plane lands on aircraft carrier (0.13) -blank- (0.16) plane landing (0.27) men working on undercarriage of aircraft - they seem to look at guide track for rod coming from underside (?) (0.36) aeroplane takes off again, this time we see the rods pulling the craft into position before their release and take off (0.48) -blank- (0.50) gvs take off and landing, towards end of sequence engineers etc gather around to take a close look at the craft (1.39) -blank- (1.42) Small model test plane with FOE1WHAT4 painted on the side takes off; c/u board: "Cockpit check. ON Brakes. Down Drop Tanks Up Spirits. Eat at Noahs Grill" (2.04) c/u board reading 'End Speed 101kN' (2.06) elevated view as plane is positioned on runway and takes off. There are personnel sitting on runway to watch (2.49) -blank- (2.54) shot of plane getting ready to take off (3.02) brief shot helicopter flying alongside aircraft carrier, gvs plane taking off and shot of steaming tracks afterwards (plane catapulted along these to take off) (3.24) views of some equipment used to catapult plane into the air, this seems to hold the plane in position (3.35)