Southampton Radar (1960)

M/S of the entrance of a radar station housed in a castle in Calshot, Southampton as a sailor walks through the stone archway. C/Us of a slit window and a round ornament on the castle wall. M/S of the castle (the commentator says it was built in Henry VIII’s time), tilt up to show a modern building on top of it and the radar scanner whirling round above it. L/S of radar station on the edge of the harbour, with a Princess flying boat (or seaplane) behind it. L/S of the Southampton estuary, with the SS America steaming through towards us. M/S in radar room where the Duty Operations Officer is looking at a screen. C/Us of him looking at the screen, his hands turning knobs on the control panel, the radar screen with the beam moving round. M/S of “ultramodern VHF radiotelephone“ with two telephone receivers; a man comes into shot and picks up one of them. Natural sound as we hear him giving instructions to alert a dredger to move clear of the path of SS America. M/Ss of radar launch travelling to