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This programme looks at some Hollywood stunts and scientifically proves if they are possible. A scene from "Shanghai Noon" is highlighted and a scientific experiment is performed to inve...stigates if a wet cloth is stronger than a dry cloth. If so, can it bend steel bars?
This programme looks at some Hollywood stunts and scientifically proves if they are possible. A scene from "Shanghai Noon" is highlighted and a scientific experiment is performed to inve...stigates if a wet cloth is stronger than a dry cloth. If so, can it bend steel bars?
| Series: | Hollywood science |
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| First transmission date: | 2001 |
| Published: | 2001 |
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| Duration: | 00:09:04 |
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| Producer: | Mark Bridge |
| Contributors: | Jonathan Hare; Robert Llewellyn |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/science/hollywood_science/ |
| Keyword(s): | Urine |
| Subject terms: | Strength of materials; Research |
| Footage description: | Footage - Titles - Suburban detached house. Split screen title shots of 2 presenters performing various experiments. Presenter in front room of house. Film Footage Martial arts fighting in forest. Presenter gets punched. FilmClip Martial arts fighting in a bar. (00'40") Both presenters in house. Female martial artist performing a kick. Presenters in shack in back garden. FilmClip Jackie Chan and co-star imprisoned behind bars. Jackie Chan urinates on a shirt and uses shirt and chair leg to bend bars and escape. (02'00") Presenters behind bars in shed. FilmClip Jackie Chan and co-star escaping through bent bars. Two presenters in the workshop. FilmClip Martial Drill in square, synchronised practice moves. Two presenters in the workshop. Ingredients on table, Water, Urea (powdered) Lemon juice, Salt (Sodium), Tea for colour. Mixing ingredients. Jokes. FilmClip, Jackie Chan bending bars. (04'12") Presenters in garden with two buckets, one suspended by dry cloth, one suspended by cloth soaked in mixed solution. Buckets are filled with water until cloth breaks. Dry cloth breaks at 26KG, wet cloth at 30KG. View from TreeCam camera in tree above suspended buckets. Detail of broken cloths. Detail of scales. Buckets placed on Scales and weighed. Two presenters locked behind bars. Use wet shirt and chair leg in same way as Jackie Chan to bend bars. FilmClip (interleaved with main footage) Jackie Chan bending the bars as the presenters bend the bars in parallel. Presenters bend bars. (07'17") Escape! Wringing out the cloth into the bucket. Two presenters give Shanghai Moon 8/10 Plausibility Rating. |
| Master spool number: | BOU10672 |
| Production number: | FEUS171D |
| Videofinder number: | 5940 |
| Available to public: | no |
