How It All Began

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1821

Date Released

27 Apr 1964

Date submitted

22 Apr 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Shakespeare-On-Avon
2. 2London’s New Tube
3. 3How It All Began
4. 4News Events - in Colour: The Vc10

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: How It All Began. DESCRIPTION: The pioneering days of flight are recaptured by 5 replicas of the early nineteen hundreds, being built for a forthcoming Fox Film, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Testing the first one was Joan Hughes, an instructress at White Waltham, where it was built by Mr Douglas Bianchi. He used old photographs and drawings to recreate the little Demoiselle Monoplane, first flown in 1909. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV replica of 1909 Demoiselle Monoplane. CU steering controls. CU woman pilot Miss Joan Hughes. CU mechanic. MCU same turning propeller. GV replica pushed out into field. CU pan same. CU pilot’s hand on control. GV replica takes off. GV same in flight. GV same lands. The craft, one of five to be built for the Fox film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, was constructed by Mr Douglas Bianchi.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Aviation

Locations

White Waltham

Card file number

88222

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Ronald E. Collins

Length of story (in feet)

84

Story extras:

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