| EMPIRE'S LARGEST AIRSHIP SHED A look at a massive hangar and mooring mast for airships. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7309 |
| Catalog #: | 520978 | |
| Clip Number: | 520978-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | LSC 109 | |
| Timecode: | 01:14:33 - 01:16:30 | |
| Location: | Cardington, Befordshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Courage CONSTRUCTION: Airfields & Helipads LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Bedfordshire | |
| Description: | Tape 7309 B Use catalog # 241276 for complete story EMPIRE'S LARGEST AIRSHIP SHED - 812 ft. long and 179 ft. high built to house new Air Liner Service - is rapidly nearing completion. Cardington, Befordshire. Panning L/S of a massive air craft hangar; it is only partly completed with much of the metal frame showing. Low angled shot of the roof taken from inside the hangar. M/S of workmen climbing up the outside of the metal frame of the shed, camera tilts up as they near the roof. L/S of the men climbing up the metal frame wall of the shed. Various L/Ss of three workmen sitting on a bit of the frame fixing a girder into place (looks very high up). "D-I-N-N-E-R!" L/S of the workmen climbing down the frame. Low angled shot of workmen hanging from a bit of the frame, two of the step onto a girder suspended from a crane. L/S of the men clinging onto the girder in mid air. L/S of the crane lowering the men and the girder to ground level. L/S of the interior of the hangar; a couple of workmen slide and clamber down the internal frame. "The new giant 200 ft. high mooring mast will be able to load the Airships with fuel, water and gas whilst at anchorage". L/S of the mooring mast - looks like a pylon with a shed on the top. L/S of men climbing up a staircase on the trunk of the mast. Various L/Ss of the shed at the top of the mast. L/A of men posing and waving on the roof of the shed. | |
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