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Flying is Her Life

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1928A
Date Released
19 May 1966
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Big Bangers in Grand Prix Preview
  2. 2Strike!
  3. 3Riotous Return for Everton
  4. 4Flying is Her Life

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flying Is Her Life. DESCRIPTION: Thirty-six year old Maria Atanassova, first woman ever to land an airliner gets a Bulgarian welcome from pupils from a Gravesend Secondary School at London Airport. Also in Sydney the Berioska Dance Company of Moscow who’ve toured two hundred cities in forty countries. SHOTLIST: Key Scene. GV Ilyushin airliner on tarmac at London Airport. LS ditto. MS ditto. MS cockpit of airliner. MS Maria Atanassova in cock-pit. CU ditto. MCU ditto. MS ditto. MLS tailplane of airliner. MS Maria standing at bottom of plane steps. MS propeller. GV display of Bulgarian folk dancing on tarmac, performed by pupils of Gravesend Secondary Modern School. MS Maria and officials watching. MS folk dancers. MS ditto. MS Maria watching. MS folk dancers. GV Russian dancers from Berioska Dance Company on stage at Sydney. Various similar shots of ditto.
Keywords
Music and dance; Women; Aviation
Locations
Sydney; Australia; London Heathrow Airport
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
91123
Credits:
Camera
John Mould
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
192
Story extras:

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