Rugby Radio Station (1924)

Rugby, Warwickshire. Title: “RUGBY RADIO STATION. Rapid progress is being made with Britain’s biggest wireless Station“. L/S of an old farmhouse with a very tall radio mast next to it, tilt up to show length of mast. Intertitle: “3,000 miles of wire are used in the stays alone“. Low angled shot looking up the mast, two men are doing maintenance work on a platform, tilt down to show the base of the mast. Intertitle: “Eight 820 ft. Masts (twice as high as St. Paul’s) are already erected“. L/S of a mast, several men do construction work around it, tilt up to show length of mast. M/S of three men doing repair work half way up the mast. Low angled shot looking up the middle of the mast, three men work above the camera, suspended on ropes. Intertitle: “Experts climb to the top in 35 minutes! (Our Cameraman, after getting half way, said, ’Only an expert could do it at all!!’)“. M/S of three men half way up the mast, two are doing repair work, one is operating a movie camera. Top shot