Airforce Visit

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2187

Date Released

3 May 1971

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Airforce Visit. DESCRIPTION: The Duchess of Gloucester at the Leeming RAF base in Yorkshire for a special inspection visit. The highlight of the tour, a daring performance by the Gemini acrobatic team. SHOTLIST: GV line up of RAF jet planes. SV Leeming control tower. GV plane taxies in. SV officials waiting. LV Duchess of Gloucester walks down steps, shakes hands with Mayor. SV children watch. SV Duchess shakes hands with officials - zoom in to stripe on her sleeve - pan up to her face. SV children in crowd. SV Duchess speaks to kids. GV line up of planes. SV women mechanics on plane. SV track back as Duchess inspects line of planes. CU pilot in cockpit. G to A pan display (2 planes). SV Duchess & officials watch. G to A display. SV RAF woman presents Duchess with flowers.

Keywords

Royalty; Displays; Aviation; Military

Locations

Yorkshire; United Kingdom; Leeming

Card file number

97037

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

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