Superflight

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1969A
Date Released
2 Mar 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Rugby
  2. 2Last of the Few
  3. 3Superflight
  4. 4Man Line
  5. 5Starshine

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Superflight. DESCRIPTION: Progress report on Concorde. In Toulouse, the French Prototype is well up to schedule while, at Filton near Bristol, BAC are keeping pace with the British counterpart. Shown for the first time, a full-scale mock-up of Concorde in which a hundred and thirty eight passengers will fly at fourteen hundred miles an hour. SHOTLIST: GV Concorde under construction at Filton in England. TS pan ditto. GV ditto. MS name on side of plane ‘2nd Prototype 002’. MS workmen assembling heat shield on cockpit. LS men working on plane. MS interior of plane, men working. CU man working on plane. MS ditto. CU another man working on plane. MS ditto. TS Concorde under construction. Slip pan. GV the French Prototype 001 under construction at Toulouse. MS plane under construction. MS men working on cockpit section of plane. CU. GV Concorde under construction. CU man working on French Prototype. TS ditto. GV French Prototype under construction. Slip pan GV wing section of mock-up plane 002. MS the designer of the plane interior, sits down inside plane. Trucking shot past passengers seated in plane. Pan mock-up of Concorde. LS ditto.
Keywords
Aviation; Business and commerce; Industry and manufacture
Locations
France; Bristol; England; Filton; Toulouse
Footage sources
France
Card file number
92070
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
152
Story extras:
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