Full titles read: "3,000,000 Volts! Once upon a time a million volts was looked upon with awe - Then 2,000,000 became the aim. Here's the latest 3,000,000 volts of --------!" (timecode obscures title.)
United States of America.
C/U of a man in glasses as he says the demonstration we are about to see involves a high power rod dissipating 100,000 horsepower, enough to power a city of 300,000 people. Several shots show a huge bolt of electricity sparking off the rod.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 21/12/1931
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 37096
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1044.17
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:00:51:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:34:50:00 / 01:35:41:00
- Canister:
- PT 091
- Sort Number:
- PT 091
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Appears in...
- Categories
- Entertainment & Humour Science & Technology
- WorkSpaces
- Electrics Electrification of America Electricity Experiments
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Stills
jamied says
The two missing words noted as being obscured by the timecode are "leashed lightning".