🎬British Movietone - At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption. Although it weighs three tons, air pressure raises it half an inch off the ground, allowing it to be pushed along with one finger. Enclose it in a aerodynamic shell and you have a hovertrain which could travel at a comfortable 200 mph.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - DATE UNKNOWN - NO SOUND - General views of various parts of Cathedral. Spires - Main Doors - Turrets etc. Across lawns - through trees. General scenes are mostly without persons.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - We went down to the Army Railway Centre in Hampshire. And so did over 130 schoolboys. It was an open invitation from the Royal Engineers. "Come and see how we run a railway" - they said. And "just watch how we do it" said the kids.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - Spanish Festival organised by the Bournemouth Corporation and various departments of the Spanish Embassy, the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and the Bournemouth Chamber of Trade. A 1926 Autogiro is also on display, invented in Spain. With a clip from Movietone News of the autogiro in flight in Spain.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - A steam rally at the Motor Museum, Beaulieu - LV helter skelter pan to traction engine. CU wheel of engine pan up angle shot wheel. CU ditto camera tilts. LV small TE in front of large full size TE. TV small engine 'Dianne' letting off steam. SCU workings of Dianne. SV steam engine supplying steam for steam organ pan to organ. SV steam organ. LV shot through wheel of TE of organ. SV men working on small engine named 'Young Winston'. CU Young Wingston sign on engine. SCU man stoking it's engine. CU engine. SV large T engine. CU wheel. SV cab of T engine. SCU flywheel & pistons in motion. SV small engine 'Little Demon' backing to couple up with trailer. CU coupling procedure. SV QM 6 small engines coming down road. SV over shoulder of driver as he drives small engine (QM). CU small engine moving along.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬A look at the work of The Forestry Commission Keepers. Described by the Keepers themselves.

Please note this film includes a deer cull sequence.

Featuring:
Martin Noble
Andy Page
John Gulliver

Carnyx Wild ©2002