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Colour: Farnborough Air Display

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2153A
Date Released
10 Sep 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Braemar Games
  2. 2Colour: Farnborough Air Display

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 2
Section Title
Colour
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Colour Farnborough Air Display. DESCRIPTION: The Red Arrows weave their Aerobatic geometry in the sky. An impudent single-seater Gyrocopter steals the limelight from an export-winning Jetliner. Harriers and Helicopters play grasshoppers and the Concorde swoops down over the crowds with majestic disdain. It’s all happening at Farnborough, shop-window of an industry that exports over a million pounds worth of aviation products every working day. SHOTLIST: Air to air Fokker 28. CU ditto. GV air to air ditto & 2 Strike Masters. GV massed crowds watching planes come into land. CU Belfast coming into land. GV pan Fokker 28 coming into land. CU Farnborough static display. GV long line people queue to board Trident 3, pan to nose of aircraft. GV Trident. CU tail ditto. GV BV gulf stream showing large tail. FV Corsair. CU American markings. CU Rolls Royce sign. LV Cerva Copter (rotocraft). CU showing 2 Roto blades. SV men look inside cockpit of Wallace Gyrocopter. CU pan sawing cockpit. CU zoom back from prop of Bulldog. CU (2) pan from Scottish Lion emblem on wing to plane. Cockpit & control panel. GV armaments in front of Jastred. CU row of missiles. CU pan missiles. Angle shot mass of shells, LV pan crowds looking at 2 Harriers. GV and armaments, LV pan armaments in front of the Jaguar. CU pan nose of Jaguar. CU pan armaments of Jaguar. CU pan row of rockets. GV helicopters flying about with coloured smoke trails. SV zoom back ditto. GV bomb explosions on ground. LV formation of copters flying towards camera. GV copters hover over ground whilst troops attack in b/g. CU copter hovering low. GV people watching show. CU Harrier lifting off. LV pan Wallace Gyrocopter coming into land. LV Harrier coming down to land with a bump. LV ground to air Island flying past. LV pan take off Hawker-Siddeley 125. SV man taking picture looking skywards. SV G to air Nimrod flies over head. CU ditto. SV G to air BAC 111 flying overhead. GBV Trident taxies & takes off steeply. SV boy & girl look skywards through binoculars. SV air to air the Bulldog. SV ditto HS 125. LV Jaguar. CU ditto Jaguar. LV ditto the Harrier with American markings. CU nose ditto. GV air to air BEA Trident. SV tail of Trident. GV air to air ditto peels away. GV G to air, Red Arrows swoop down in formation. GV ditto. GV pan Red Arrows fly past. At speed in formation GV crowds watch Concorde fly past right to left. SV crowd. Pan Concorde left to right. SV pan Concorde flying low right to left.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Displays; Weapons; Aviation; Stunts; Military; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
Farnborough; United Kingdom; Hampshire
Card file number
96325
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Camera
Ray Gallard
Camera
Reginald William Smith
Length of story (in feet)
462
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