Learning on ScreenAviation: Airlift
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 11
- Section Title
- Aviation
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Troops Airlift to Canal Zone. DESCRIPTION: A number of Britannias were recently made ready as troop transports for the Mediterranean airlift. Infantrymen went aboard Britannias at Hurn Airport, were the first British troops to be flown overseas in the luxurious comfort of a turbo-prop airliner. SHOTLIST: TPS of a Britannia in a hangar. CU Britannia nameplate. Men bringing out single seats and then carrying up seats which hold 3 passengers. Men fitting seats and fitting covers onto the luggage rack. Interior shot down the length of the plane. Slip pan to various shots of Infantrymen boarding a Britannia at Hurn Airport. Britannia taxiing.
- Local distribution only
- Shown as Item 4 in Scotland.
- Keywords
- Aviation
- Locations
- Hurn Airport
- Card file number
- 67885
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David Lewis Jacobs
- Camera
- Ken Taylor
- Length of story (in feet)
- 50
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