First Trident for Export

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1896

Date Released

4 Oct 1965

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1You Can’t Start Too Young
2. 2Pippin Packin’ Monster
3. 3First Trident for Export
4. 4Hundred Million Pounds Worth - Straight Up

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: First Trident for Export. DESCRIPTION: Pictures from Hatfield of the handing over ceremony of the 1st Hawker Siddeley Trident for export. It’s the fastest airliner in the world, powered by three Rolls-Royce jets and it will carry eighty five passengers. SHOTLIST: MS Trident and members of the ground crew. CU name Iraqi Airways in English. MCU name Iraqi Airways in Arabic. GV VIPs at the handing over. MS Director General of Iraqi Airways receiving the Trident. MLS Trident. BS Trident. CU sign on Trident Rolls Royce by-pass jets. MS pan Group Captain Cunningham goes aboard. MS pan Director General of Iraqi Airways and his party go aboard. CU registration number of aircraft on the tail. MS pan Trident taxies out to runway. LS pan Trident takes off.

Keywords

Aviation; Ceremonies

Locations

Hertfordshire; Hatfield

Card file number

90268

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

104

Story extras:

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