Teenage Scientists Aka Schoolboy Science Lecture (1962)

London. M, S of a group of children sat in rows, various shots of them watching the Christmas Lectures for children. M, S of Sir Lawrence Bragg, Director of the Royal Institution, he is turning a wheel and on the table silk threads attached to two balls on poles stand out because of the electrostatic charge. Victor Coates comes in with a stick and pokes them, he then moves the poles together. M, S as Sir Lawrence adjusts the machine and several of the threads attach themselves together. M, S of some boys watching in the audience. M, S of the men again with the Tesla Coil, Victor takes a long fluorescent tube from Sir Lawrence and the lights go out. L, S as the charge from the coil is seen jumping across to light the tube. C, U of a boy watching. L, S as Sir Lawrence wheels a table in, on it is The Jumping Ring, he hands a ring to a lady who tries to put it over the machine. C, U as Sir Lawrence flicks a switch and the ring jumps off again because of the electrical field. M, S of three girls in the audie