| CYPHERS An item about codes and cyphers through the ages. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 7045 | |
| Catalog #: | 510116 | |
| Clip Number: | 510116-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 255 | |
| Timecode: | 01:40:31 - 01:43:24 | |
| Location: | various | |
| Year Shot: | 1941 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMUNICATIONS: Unusual COMMUNICATIONS: Writing Systems WAR & CONFLICT: Espionage | |
| Description: | CYPHERS An item about codes and cyphers through the ages. M/S of young woman pretending to be a spy smoking a cigarette. M/S as she leans over an older man who is writing at a desk, she pulls orders out of his pocket without him noticing and puts them in her garter. M/S as her accomplice holds a lighter underneath the blank paper to make the writing appear. It turns out to be horse racing odds. Various shots of a scene representing code in ancient Greece when a belt was brought and wrapped around the wrist several times to reveal the message. M/S as a brush is dipped in milk bottle, someone writes with it on a piece of paper then rubs ash in to make it visible. M/S of a diagram showing codes, then another of a cypher where letters are changed. M/S of Grille cypher with latticed frame which blocks out certain letters to give the message. M/S of a copy of William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labour's Lost' suggesting it was written by Francis Bacon because his name is spelt out in some of the text. Various shots of a young woman doing shorthand. M/S of another with sun proof liquid on her back, when she tans under a lamp the message comes up. Various shots of flags spelling out 'England expects every man to do his duty.' | |
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