Fireworks Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1962)

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.



Various shots of fireworks exploding against a night sky.



M/S of a man wheeling a barrow past a row of wooden huts separated by blast screens - a fireworks factory. He takes a casket of gun powder from the barrow and takes it into one of the huts to factory worker, Taffy Davis. Various C/Us of Taffy assembling Roman Candles.



Various shots of Ted Stent assembling Catherine Wheels. Ted is adding a jet propellant tube to the edge of the wheel to make it spin.



Outside the huts, two men are wheeling a barrow covered in different fireworks. One of the men takes some of the fireworks to a field to test. He packs a large firework in sand and lights it. He steps back and times how long the firework lasts with a stop watch.



More shots of fireworks going off at night.



note: this testing ground is also featured in Colour Pictorial - CP 169, in story - FIREWORKS, found on Pathe Master tape *PM0073*.



Cuts exist - please see separate record.
FILM ID:213.05

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