Vanguard’s First Flight
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 8
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vanguard’s First Flight. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show the Vickers Vanguard, one of the most outstanding machines ever to enter the civil airline field. Twenty are on order for BEA and 20 for a Canadian Air Line. Vanguard operators should be able to cut passengers fares by half, thus bringing air travel within the range of millions of small purses. SHOTLIST: Vanguard (key). MS pan - plane takes off. LS plane takes off. LS air to air of Vanguard. Pan - Vanguard lands.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Business and commerce
- Locations
- England; Surrey
- Footage sources
- Vickers-Armstrong Ltd
- Card file number
- 76116
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Length of story (in feet)
- 68
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