Fireworks

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Harry Dawson

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A behind the scenes look at a major July 4 serial display. The viewer is shown what the shells look like, how they work and how they are set up. The camera stays with the shooter during the show as he moves from mortar to mortar firing the big shells and shell clusters, sharing with him the exhilaration and danger of filling the sky with fire and color.