Learning on ScreenLondon’s Heliport
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: London’s Heliport. DESCRIPTION: A landing platform, built over the Thames, and its control tower make up London’s first Heliport, at Battersea. Mr John Hay, of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, performed the official opening. After the ceremony, he flew off on his first helicopter trip. And here is a bird’s-eye view of the new buildings now so rapidly going up in London, and the famous landmarks of the capital: the Palace of Westminster, the Houses of Parliament, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London and Tower Bridge and many more. SHOTLIST: Low angle helicopter (key). GV heliport. MS Mr John May on Control Tower. Same cuts tape. GV Mr May in cockpit of helicopter. MS helicopter. Low angle. CU files overhead. Aerial shot pan River Thames. Aerial shot - pan London. Pilot in cockpit (interior). Aerial shot pan new flats at Battersea. Aerial GV Houses of Parliament. GV St Paul’s from cockpit. Aerial shot pan - Tower of London. LS Tower Bridge seen from cockpit. Aerial shot - pan Tower Bridge GV pan - Battersea Power Station. GV Heliport.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Aviation; Ceremonies; Engineering; Scenery and travel
- Locations
- London; England
- Card file number
- 76983
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- John Davies
- Camera
- Len Waldorf
- Length of story (in feet)
- 152
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