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Title: DISTANCE NO OBJECT

Reference number: 2044

Date: 1959

Director: d. Henry Cooper

Sponsor: Cable Belt Limited

Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.52 mins

Description: The Cable Belt rope driven conveyor at work.

Credits: p. Alan Harper
ph. Russell Walker & Data Film Unit.
comm. s. Leonard Maguire.
rec. Ian Duff.
Cable Belt gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the National Coal Board and the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. in the production of this film.

Shotlist: REEL 1

Credits (0.36). Shots of the Cable Belt used for mining (0.44); A conveyor has now been perfected, in which the driving pull is entirely divorced from the belt (0.53); Shots of the cable belt in operation (1.56); It is such a rope which is utilised as the driving medium for the Cable Belt Rope Driven Conveyor (2.05); More shots of the cable belt (2.25); Shot of map of Britain and world with lines pointing from Inverness through France and Africa and round world (2.48); More shots and diagrams of the cable belt (7.52).

REEL 2

More underground shots of the cable belt in action (7.00). As a result of the many special features fully developed and incorporated in the Cable Belt Rope Driven Conveyor, important savings in initial and replacement costs have been achieved (7.07). Exterior and interior shots of the cable belt at work (10.00).