London Air Crash

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2040

Date Released

8 Jul 1968

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cost of Canvas
2. 2London Air Crash
3. 3Welcome Home, Alec Rose! News in Colour

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: London Air Crash. DESCRIPTION: A once in a life-time chance for an amateur cameraman. Oldham Shopkeeper Frank Mills records the terrible Freighter crash at Heathrow airport as it happens. Movietone enlarges his film to present the harrowing moments of tragedy in which six people die in a four-plane pile-up. SHOTLIST: 2 sequences of Elizabethan plane crashing at Heathrow Airport on top of Trident aircraft. Note - this material was blown up from 8mm amateur film.

Keywords

Aviation; Accidents and disasters

Locations

London; United Kingdom; London Heathrow Airport

Footage sources

Press
Shand News

Card file number

93712

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

65

Story extras:

Film clip

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