Story Of Bluebird Rushes

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1960
  • Asset ID: 801945
  • Synopsis: Mute black and white rushes of the construction and testing and of the Bluebird CN7, one of the record-breaking cars of the late 1950s and 1960s. Good quality.
  • Shotlist: 00:00:40 Pull back from over R shoulder, man looking at ship or hull design, to WS table of six men looking over plans. One man standing, hands paper to a seated man. 00:00:54 MS man seated facing L, looking over plans. Hands plans to the L, camera follows. Shot of plans, with MS of pen and hand. 00:01:03 MS man standing at design easel covered with different hull charts and cross sections. Man has pencil, points to different things while speaking to the R. CA to reaction MS, seated man. Back to the drawing board, CU of pencil and hand pointing to different designs. Back to different angle MLS of man, who then gestures with pencil to the R. 00:01:30 MLS follows man standing waving a pencil to the R, pans across group of seated men to blank drawing board on the R. Other man stands, cut to MS of man on L drawing on R. CU of drawing. 00:02:03 MS of man in tie and sleeveless cardigan bent towards and model of Bluebird CN7 while taping strips to the front of the model. Cut to different angle, with the model angled to the Left of the screen and foreshortened. 00:02:18 Group shot of several figures, in a laboratory. Man at terminal sits in L foreground, Bluebird model in the wind tunnel. Standing man hands tape to tunnel man, then sits by control panel. Cut to MS of two men at computer, with model in background. Tunnel man extricates himself, goes to control panel. 00:02:33 Quick shot of thumb pressing button marked start, cut to fan propeller starting up, then model in wind tunnel. Reaction CU of man watching to the L, turns R. Man at the control panel looks R, pushes some buttons. 00:02:57 Bank of control panels at terminal, hands reaching from R. Man looks from R to L, fan propeller speeds up. CU of Bluebird model in wind tunnel as the front of the model is raised and lowered. 00:03:30 Test card from the production, then man walks from directly in front of the camera away, 2S men in white lab suits taking readings from lab and fiddling with a large machine. MS of man and machine, CU of gears, MS of man in glasses at readout looking L. CU of weight on long shaft, cut to gears. Back to 2S from different angle. 00:03:59 CU of finger pushing button marked start. Cut to gears whirling very quickly, MS of man looking at readings, CU reading, CU finger pressing stop button, CU gears stopping, CU another weight added, repeat finger pressing start and gears engaging, this continues with more weights and buttons. 00:04:26 CU of gears whirling, white gradually fills the gear area. Cut to LS man in laboratory, joined by another man. He flips a switch LA and a motor starts. The man by the switch flips another, BCU of engine or gear teeth moving. Back to man at switch, looking at dials. 00:04:54 MS man with flashing light kneeling by machine looks intently into the machine. BCU of machine teeth moving. Man gets up, HA crosses to man by switch with diagram. CU plans and hands pointing. 00:05:24 Man kneels by machine again, picks up flashing light and aims into the machine. BCU machine moving slowly. 00:05:40 Over the shoulder to R of man in white lab coat with glasses behind large white terminal of dials and buttons. Pan L following man around large machine. Man sticks his hands into stack of turning disks, CU of pushing start button, large machine rotates faster, disks turn faster. CU of glasses man watching, cut to MS of two men at terminals looking L and at each other, CU of dial showing RPM. Back to CU of glasses man, leaning forward. Cut to disks spinning, dial reading higher. Man in suit looks from L to R anxiously. CU dial is now at maximum, MS exchange of words, CU pushing stop button. Man in suit looks again, CU hand turns long handle. 00:06:33 Sparks shoot out of large spinning machine, then stop and begin again. Rotating disk is slowing and stops, machine is smoking. 00:07:16 Ends
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None