The Farnborough Show

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1370A

Date Released

8 Sep 1955

Date submitted

5 Sep 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cyprus - London Protest March
2. 2Children’s Art
3. 3Title Fight Training
4. 4Typhoon
5. 5A Trunk Call
6. 6Bullfighers School
7. 7The Farnborough Show

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Farnborough Air Show. DESCRIPTION: Large crowds including many visitors from overseas attended the show. Various types of new planes were to be seen. SHOTLIST: CU of Hawker Hunter with armaments. GV of crowds at Farnborough. SCU of man with umbrella. SCU of man with camera. CU of USAF cameraman. CU of Gnat parked. CU of Fairey Delta 2 parked. CU of Gyrodyne parked. Bristol 173 parked, takes off and shots in flight, then goes forward and reverses. Fairey Ultra Light flying. Gyrodyne flying. Anthony Eden gets out of the Gyrodyne. Eden inspecting plane cockpit. CU of Eden. Pioneer takes off, flies and then lands. Crowd shot. Avro Vulcan flying. CUs at speed. Fairey Delta 2 flying and then landing. Crowd shot. Various CUs of Peter Townsend watching planes flying. Handley Page Herald takes off and then shots in flight. GV of 4 Seamews in formation. Avro CF-100 takes off and shots in flight. CU flying. Crowd shot. GV of the Comet 3 coming out of the clouds. CUs of the Comet. Bristol Britannia flying. Crowd shot. Hawker Hunter flying. At Chalgrove Airfield, GV of a Meteor being towed from hangar. CU of John Fifield in cockpit. GV of ejector seat being released from cockpit, parachute opening and the Squadron Leader landing. CU of Fifield after landing. Farnborough - GV of Hawker Hunters flypast.

Keywords

Aviation; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Farnborough

Card file number

64438

Credits:

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

300

Story extras:

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