FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH

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Title: FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH

Reference number: 9534

Date: 1981

Director: filmed by Chris O’Kane

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.26 mins

Description: A trip to the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to watch and film the launch of the first Space Shuttle.

Shotlist: GVs from inside aircraft, pilot in cockpit reading map. Passengers boarding bus. GVs Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Space Shuttle launch site in distance. Closer shots of Space Shuttle on launchpad. Shots from viewing area across water with countdown board. Int shots conference centre, control room. Press assembled at viewing area. Int shots tour of NASA facilities. Int shots of television report. GVs from viewing area, press activity, aerial fly-past, sunset. GVs Brevard Motor Hotel, Bob Shaw reading magazine in room. Sunrise shots across water to launch site. Viewing area with many photographers, TV cameras. Launch of shuttle wide shot then closer shot. GVs viewing area and photographers. Shots of TV news report in hotel room with coverage of launch.