The Flying Mattress

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1368

Date Released

22 Aug 1955

Date submitted

18 Aug 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Country in Town
2. 2Trouble in Goa
3. 3Indonesian Celebration
4. 4To Probe Heat Barrier
5. 5Model Engineering
6. 6A Naval Occasion
7. 7Festival of Honour
8. 8The Flying Mattress
9. *Students on the Clyde
10. *A Very Special Birthday

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flying Mattress. DESCRIPTION: The Flying Mattress though its official name is M1 Utility after its designer Marcelle Lobelle. The whole affair only weighing five hundredweight. SHOTLIST: CU of the plane flying. GV of preparations before flight. CU of pilot and plane taxiing to runway. GV of take off. Various flying scenes. GVs and CUs. This is not the Flying Bedstead.

Keywords

Aviation

Locations

Farnborough

Footage sources

Central Office of Information

Card file number

64333

Credits:

Commentator

John McLaren

Length of story (in feet)

72

Story extras:

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