Flying is Her Life

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1928A

Date Released

19 May 1966

Stories in this Issue:

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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