| THAT CHANNEL TUNNEL Various shots of William Low's design for a Channel Tunnel. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7242 |
| Catalog #: | 494727 | |
| Clip Number: | 494727-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 320 | |
| Timecode: | 01:25:04 - 01:28:19 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1936 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENGINEERING: Tunnel, Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | THAT CHANNEL TUNNEL Various shots of William Low's design for a Channel Tunnel. M/S as a train enters a tunnel, it is filmed from the point of view of the front of the train. M/S of dogs going in and out of tunnels in a field. Various shots of ants in their tunnels including C/U. M/S of river Thames, various shots of cars driving through tunnel, and a train running through Grotta del Paradiso in Italy. Various shots of headlines and diagrams about the Channel Tunnel. Various shots of diagram of Channel, M/S of sea. Diagram of sea tram invented by Doctor Lacomme. Various diagrams of other projects such as a submarine driven boat, a submerged tube with towers above water, a stone tunnel with iron roof and a steel bridge. Various shots of William Low's design for a Channel Tunnel showing boring machines and how the tunnels connect. Photographs showing the Tunnel was started and workings are still there. They jokingly suggest the next thing could be a tube to Australia, a cartoon shows a man jumping down it, but momentum and gravity repeatedly pull him up and push him down until he has to be blown up with a missile! | |
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