Aviation Immortals

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1981A
Date Released
25 May 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Rugby - Irish Tour
  2. 2Spurs - Superlative
  3. 3Aviation Immortals
  4. 4News in Colour: The Annual Chelsea Flower Show is in Full-Bloom. Before Touring the Show, We Visit the Orchards of Kent, Along the Blossom Route, and Call in at Tadley, in Hampshire, to Meet a Gardener Who has Covered His Garden with Plastic Flowers!
  5. *Tomorrow’s Town

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aviation Immortals. DESCRIPTION: At a re-union at Scampton, Lincs, Dam-Buster air-crews meet Mr Barnes Wallis, inventor of the Dam-Busting Bomb. 1967 is the 40th Anniversary of the first Solo Trans-atlantic flight, made by Charles Lindbergh. Movietone archives recall the achievement. Lindbergh landed at Paris, where, forty years later, the first full-size mock-up of Concorde is shown for the first time. SHOTLIST: Air to air Lancaster bomber in flight. Air to air ditto. MS water rushing from bombed dam. MS ditto. Mix into aerial shot over bombed dam. LAS Lancaster bomber flies overhead. MS Barnes Wallis greeted people off plane. GV Lancaster on tarmac. MCU Mr GA Witherick in gun turret. MS ditto. MS RAF Chaplin in cockpit. LS Lancaster on tarmac. MS name Guy Gibson on side of plane. MS ditto. MCU man with small boy watching. GV Lancaster on tarmac. Charles Lindbergh with his mother. LS Charles Lindbergh’s plane Spirit of St. Louis takes off. Air to air plane in flight. Mix to Lindbergh’s reception in Paris. TS reception in Paris. CU Charles Lindbergh. MS Lindbergh gets into car in New York. GV ticker-tape from building in New York. MS Lindbergh through New York streets. GV mock-up of Concorde out of hangar in France. MS name Concorde on side of plane. GV from underneath plane as it is towed out. CU wheels of Concorde. GV Concorde on tarmac. LS ditto. Pan wings of Concorde. GV Concorde on tarmac. LS ditto. GV ditto.
Keywords
Commemorations; Weapons; Aviation; Aircraft; Celebrations and festivals; War damage; Engineering; Military; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
France; Paris; England; Lincolnshire; Scampton
Footage sources
France
Library
Card file number
92373
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
200
Story extras:
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