Lighthouse Story 1958

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Dungeness, Kent. • • Exterior. L/S of a lighthouse and its surrounding buildings and masts at twilight. The light at the top of the lighthouse revolves slowly. According to the narrator the lighthouse is a symbol of our seafaring heritage . • • Interior. M/S of a room inside the Lighthouse filled with grey panels of radio equipment. A lighthouse keeper, Mr. Thomas Edward Dowsett, enters and opens up the door to the radio beacon to make adjustments inside. C/U of the dials and switches on the door of the radio beacon. The radio beacon transmits a signal every five minutes so that ships can get a navigational fix. • • M/S of a room half way up the lighthouse containing the subsidiary light. Mr. D. appears at the top of the staircase. He uses a large green can to pour paraffin into the brass funnel at the top of the light. • • Low angle M/S of a fixed brass ladder to the top of the lighthouse. Mr. D. climbs the ladder. C/U of Mr. D. standing in front of the enormous red lamp. He lights the wick and adjusts the flame. He uses tong to place the bulb-shaped mantle over the flame. According to the narrator the main lamp burns two and a quarter pints a paraffin every hour. The light shines through six hundred prisms mounted in ten panels allowing the light to be seen seventeen miles away. C/U of the glowing mantle. • • Crawley, West Sussex. Interior. M/S of a factory floor. In the foreground is a large red lighthouse lamp revolving slowly. In the background a man is working on what appears to be a flying saucer . A second man joins the first and they begin fixing a piece of copper piping to the flying saucer . The narrator reveals that the flying saucer is in fact the turret that houses the light. C/U of the pipe being fitted. • • M/S of Mr. Len Seddon, the supervising optics assemble foreman, studying a plan of the lighthouse lens. He picks up the lens lying beside the plan and fits it onto the half assembled light. The narrator explains he is fitting a 'bullseye' lens destined for a lighthouse off Trinidad. Various shots of Len fitting the lens with the help of his young assistant, Maurice Farmer. • • Low angle M/S of William Hone adjusting the automatic lamp changer. He is using a screwdriver to make adjustments to an electric panel below the revolving bulbs. The automatic lamp changer ensures against bulb failure. • • C/U, taken through the lamp, of the face of Douglas Harmer distorted by glass. • • M/S of Edward Mordant and Ernest Smith working on a system of pulleys and cogs - a multicatoptric - a device used on a lightship to keep the light level even when the sea is rough. M/S of the light swinging. Tilt down to a weighted pendulum on the end of the light's central post. • • M/S of John Luck fiddling with one of three generators. He walks over to a panel of electrical dials and switches. Various shots of the dials and John taking measurements from them - the lighthouse keeper of today has to be trained as an electrician as well as other lighthouse duties . • • Exterior. M/S of a revolving fog detector. In the background a snow covered field and trees are visible. Various shots of the detector at work. M/S of a siren letting off fog signals. • • Exterior. L/S of the lighthouse in Dungeness at night. M/S of the top of the lighthouse with the shining lamp revolving. • FILM ID:71.21 • A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ • FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ • British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

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