Crash Helmets (1953)

Crash helmets. Langley, Buckinghamshire. Various shots of two motorcyclists riding down the road, they signal and turn into a side road, camera pans to sign for ’Road Research Laboratory’. Interior M/S of glass flask which represents a head. It is put on a pole and raised slightly then dropped, it smashes. A normal cap is put on another flask and raised slightly higher then smashed. M/S as they put a crash helmet on a flask, they raise it to different heights and drop it but it doesn’t break. 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 (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as