| WAIT A SECOND Item showing what and how much can happen in just one second. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 7037 | |
| Catalog #: | 264103 | |
| Clip Number: | 264103-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 213 | |
| Timecode: | 01:15:57 - 01:18:28 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CLOCKS: Time | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 434078 WAIT A SECOND Item showing what and how much can happen in just one second. C/U of a stopwatch. C/U of couple - man says "don't be long dear", she replies "I'll only be gone one second". Shot is repeated, this time with trick photography: we see the woman reappear after exactly one second, man says "that was quick!". Various shots of couple looking at 24 frames of film stock, behind them is a movie camera. M/S of man swinging pendulum exactly 39.1 inches long - that's how a second is measured. Various shots of parachutists jumping out of airborne aeroplane. Words "32 feet drop in 1 second" are superimposed over image. Various shots of aeroplane. Superimposed over image is title "440 feet travelled each second. A big plane burns one gallon per mile that is 1/12th of a gallon each second". Diagrams and stills of a Spitfire, a gun and a battleship shelling. Superimposed over top are more statistics about what happens in one second to a bullet, a shell etc. Diagram showing that shells travel faster than a pistol bullet or sound. C/U of candle. Animated diagram showing how quickly light travels around the Earth and to the Moon. Various shots of gasworks, waterworks and Niagara Falls in Canada / USA. More statistics are superimposed over top about amount of water / gas etc. that moves in one second. C/U of man: "Blimey that reminds me - I forgot to turn the bath off". | |
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