Colour: BOAC Inaugural Jumbo Jet Flight to Australia

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2218

Date Released

6 Dec 1971

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Boac Inaugural Jumbo Jet Flight to Australia - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Jumbo Jet trip in 15,000 mile jaunt to Australia. 360 passengers fly at 550 mph in supreme comfort. SHOTLIST: GV Jumbo Jet waiting at London Airport. CU ditto. CU Movietone label on camera magazine. SV cameraman and assistant get up and go to plane. SV Harry Secombe arrives inside plane, shakes hands with hostess then sticks label on his forehead. GV pan BOAC 747 takes off. GV interior passengers seated. GV passengers being served with lunch. GV passengers eating in first class section. CU serving food onto plate. GV air to air, Jumbo Jet flight. SV flight deck in morning light. SV pilot at controls, morning can be seen through windows, wing in shot. SV Secombe seated with earphones on, starts conducting with his hands. CU morning light through window in cockpit. SV interior Secombe goes up staircase to lounge bar. SV Chinese stewardess Josephine Wong gives bottle of warm milk for baby to mother. CU baby drinking milk. Secombe takes drink from barman at bar then sits in large comfortable chair. GV air to air, jet in flight. GV air view Sydney Bridge and Harbour. GV pan jet landing at Sydney Airport. SV jet taxiing towards airport building zoom out to GV. Big GV Sydney and skyscraper buildings. GV Opera House & Harbour. Opera House from harbour. GV large sailing boat in harbour. SV pan man on small sailing boat. Big GV Sydney Bridge & Harbour. Pan Australian countryside & Canberra travel shot along country road to farm land. GV rounding up sheep. CU farmer with sheep showing thickness of wool. SV man throws boomerang. LV it travels through air & lands near man. CU girl sunbathing on beach. LV people surf riding in sea. GV whale beach. SV girl putting on sun lotion on her arms. GV women in sun garden, sunbathing, whale beach in b/g.

Keywords

Aviation

Locations

Australia; London Heathrow Airport

Card file number

97683

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Stan Goozee

Length of story (in feet)

308

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