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

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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:
Film clip

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