That Channel Tunnel (1936)
Item title reads That Channel Tunnel M, S as a train enters a tunnel, it is filmed from the point of view of the front of the train. M, S of dogs going in and out of tunnels in a field. Various shots of ants in their tunnels including C, U. M, S of river Thames, various shots of cars driving through tunnel, and a train running through Grotta del Paradiso in Italy. Various shots of headlines and diagrams about the Channel Tunnel. Various shots of diagram of Channel, M, S of sea. Diagram of sea tram invented by Doctor Lacomme. Various diagrams of other projects such as a submarine driven boat, a submerged tube with towers above water, a stone tunnel with iron roof and a steel bridge. Various shots of William Low s design for a Channel Tunnel showing boring machines and how the tunnels connect. Photographs showing the Tunnel was started and workings are still there. They jokingly suggest the next thing could be a tube to Australia, a cartoon shows a man jumping down it, but momentum and gravity rep
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