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  1. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Air Cadets Study Bird Flight

    Date released
    14 Jul 1941
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    632
    NoS ID
    011802
    Story no
    6 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ATC Study Bird Flight. DESCRIPTION: A squadron of the ATC visits London Zoo to study bird flight. SHOTLIST: The boys gather round and an instructor demonstrates how birds fly. Story...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news Online Online Moving image Moving image
  2. Rudolf Hess obituary (1987)

    Genre
    Feature; Obituary

    Dave Loyn presents a feature on the death of Rudolf Hess. Includes Hess’s sentencing at the Nuremberg Trials; Wolf Rudiger Hess’s account of his father’s flight to Britain; Lord Douglas-Hamilton...

    LBC IRN LBC IRN Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio
  3. Reading from the air [Mayor’s helicopter trip] (1981)

    Reading’s new Mayor, Basil Dunning, has been taking a bird’s eye look at the town. He recently expressed a wish to see Reading from the air, so with the help of Newbury firm Micro Consultants. Radio 210...

    ILR South ILR South Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio
  4. Flight Of Fancy!

    Date released
    9 Dec 1929
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1953
    NoS ID
    386643
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: 80-year old German inventor/bird-fancier demonstrates his ornithopter (Bird-Plane).

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  5. Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: First snapshot is inventor in Czechoslovakia trying out model of bird flight wing flapping plane

    Date released
    6 Sep 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    274A
    NoS ID
    005050
    Story no
    2 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Czechoslovakia Try Out Model Plane. SHOTLIST: Shot of the model being prepared for flight and also in flight.

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  6. Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: First snapshot is inventor in Czechoslovakia trying out model of bird flight wing flapping plane

    Date released
    3 Sep 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    274A
    NoS ID
    001768
    Story no
    1 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Czechoslovakia Try Out Model Plane. SHOTLIST: Shot of the model being prepared for flight and also in flight.

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  7. ATLANTIC FLIGHT

    Date released
    9 May 1927
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1683
    NoS ID
    385948
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: Capt. Nungesser, the French air ‘ace’ and his ‘White Bird’ plane, who is determined to fly from Paris to New York.

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  8. Bird Man Tries Again - Cranfield

    Date released
    9 Nov 1959
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    59/90
    NoS ID
    108900
    Story no
    2 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Experiment in man-powered flight goes step further.

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news Digitised Documents Digitised Documents Online Online Moving image Moving image
  9. Movietone’s Wartime News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Helicopters Through the Ages

    Date released
    26 Apr 1943
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    725
    NoS ID
    012682
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Helicopter. DESCRIPTION: From the autogiros of previous decades has developed the helicopter. The newest of these has just been adopted by the US Army Air Force. SHOTLIST: CU of...

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  10. Only for the Birds?

    Date released
    26 Sep 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1790A
    NoS ID
    025268
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Only for the Birds?. DESCRIPTION: Ever since he saw his first bird, man has been trying to get airborne under his own power. The latest bird-man is Victoria’s Ron Costello. He’s out...

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