Fylingdales Early Warning (1966)
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- Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
On a remote moor, the R.A.F. house their Ballistic Missile Early Warning System - monitors listen to the sound of stars, track satellites and meteorites and most importantly watch out for hostile missile attacks.
Point of view shot from the front of a car driving into a remote R.A.F. base. L/S of enormous concrete "weird radar domes". Point of view shot as the car drives through an automatically operated garage door, an officer comes out and stops the car, the driver, C.O., Group Captain Wright shows the officer his identity badge. Point of view of the car going down a tunnel - very James Bond!
Low angled L/S of a giant radar scanner inside one of the domes. Various C/Us of the hexagonal panels that make up the protective dome. M/S of a man unlocking a heavy door for Captain W. C/U of the man's hand turning a wheel to open the lock, Captain W. enters the radar scanning housing, the door is locked behind him. Captain W. comes up a spiral staircase and talks to a man in civilian clothing. Low angle shot of Captain W. and the man up looking at the scanner before entering its base.
M/S of two men inside the scanner control room. C/U of switches being flicked on the control panel. C/U of dials. C/U of Captain W. and an American officer, Colonel Hunt. Various shots of a man threading up a reel to reel tape in a computer. Various shots of a young woman typing. C/U of printout paper coming out of a computer.
Aerial shot of one white and one camouflaged Vulcan fighter planes. Aerial shot of the bottom of the white Vulcan as it flies over the camera.
Cuts exist - please see separate record.
FILM ID:361.06
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Great to watch. I always wondered where my grandfather Group Captain A R Wright worked. Looks very professional.
Memories of driving past all of this in the 60s and 70s when on our way to Robin Hoods Bay. There were a lot of signs on the fences and I'm sure some warned that photography was not permitted and others that told you to keep moving because of the electromagnetic radiation hazard??
As a school boy I went inside one of these just before they were decommissioned when I was an air cadet, I will always recall the overwhelming smell of hydraulic fluid and the tunnel at the strt of the film...Would have been early 1990's.....
I had the chance to go inside the sister site to this, Clear Alaska before it's upgrade to phased array technology, it was AMAZING!
Looks like a James Bond film.
I thaught the same. So entertaining to see my grandfather in a film like that. Blown away as could only ever imagine what it was like.
It's not Flyingdales!! It's Fylingdales!! Even the narrator says it.
Wright you are, Sir!
2min 26sec: In this space age world of split second decisions there can be no time for mistakes, and no time to count the consequences! So everything the aerial’s pick up is fed into computers…
Fylingdales
no seatbelts...at all!
Are the workers in plainclothes civil servants or airmen working undercover?
The control room looks like me tryna keep my pc cool