The Sleeping Princesses
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Sleeping Princesses. DESCRIPTION: Three 140 ton Princess Flying Boats, built just after the war at a cost of some 10 million pounds, are up for sale. For 6 years they’ve been sleeping princesses, wrapped up in their cocoons down on the South Coast. Now, it’s been officially decided that the idea of flying the 85-passenger luxury craft must be abandoned. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS Princesses flying boat. LS same. MS nose of plane TS same MCU same. MLS wing MS same MS same MS same. MCU tail of plane. MS nose of plane. LS plane. Slip pan MLS flying boat in sea. MS boat (head on). LS boat about to move. LS motor launch pan to flying boat. LS flying boat cruising across sea. LAS boat in flying. LAS same.
- Keywords
- Aviation
- Locations
- England
- Card file number
- 81696
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- John Davies
- Length of story (in feet)
- 89
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