Naval Aviation

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1294

Date Released

22 Mar 1954

Date submitted

16 Mar 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Queensland Greets the Queen
2. 2Naval Aviation
3. 3News in Brief: The Persian Ambassador
4. 4News in Brief: Comet Returns to Service
5. 5News in Brief: Guards Leave for Canal Zone
6. 6News in Brief: NATO Radar School
7. 7News in Brief: Royalty on Riviera
8. 8News in Brief: Queen Juliana
9. 9News in Brief: Prince Bernhard
10. 10Kenya - Agricultural Show

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 10

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Naval Aviation - Helicopter Squadron & Jet Landing on Carrier. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Navy’s first anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron has just gone into operation service. Based in Gosport, the Squadron is equipped with American-built S55’s. Due to the high-speed approach of jet planes, a new device has been introduced to aircraft-carriers to beam the pilots landing-on. SHOTLIST: Anti sub. Helicopter Squadron take off and hovering. Various shots of them in flight. Sailors looking up at same. Flying out over Gosport harbour. Flying over the ship. Britannia and Victory. Helicopter Squadron flying back to base. Wipe. Aircraft Carrier in rough seas. Batsman using hand signals. Various shots of Aircraft carrier in rough weather. Jet aircraft. Shot taken from aircraft. Coming into land on carrier. CU shot of new invention to bring in aircraft. Shots of curved mirror on apparatus. Slow motion of jet aircraft making perfect landing on aircraft carrier.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Aviation; Navy; Military; Inventions and discoveries; Newsreels

Locations

Gosport

Card file number

60690

Credits:

Camera

George Richardson

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

140

Story extras:

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