3,000,000 Volts! (1939)

Titles read: “3,000,000 VOLTS!“ Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Several demonstrations in a laboratory shows a spark of 3,000,000 volts splitting a telegraph pole and reducing a man’s shirt to a tattered mess. A group of men (journalists?) watch and jump at the sound of the electricity. Outside, a bale of hay is first protected by lightning conductors that protect it from the volts. When the conductors are removed the hay catches fire and starts to blaze. Several brief shots of massive electric sparks of ’home-made lightning’ fizzing around conductors against a black background. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-19