Rfc Display & 60th Anniversary

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2239

Date Released

1 May 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rfc Display & 60th Anniversary. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Flying Corps formed in 1912 takes to the air once again in an old SE5 First World War Fighter. The ‘plane is kept in flying order by the Farnborough Royal Aircraft Establishment. Film includes old fighters and bombers in World War 1, somewhere in France. SHOTLIST: SV pan wheeling out SE5 World War I plane in connection with RFC (Royal Flying Corps) Jubilee. SCU Wing Commander Bates in flying kit getting into cockpit of SE5. CU model of Spitfire. Angle shot pan SE5 flying overhead. GV pan large group of RAF officers watching fly past of SE5. SCU Sir Dermot Boyle watching. SV pan SE5 flying past accompanied by helicopter. CU Boyle. GV pan SE 5 flies past watched by RAF VIPs. CU air to air ditto (GV Old World War 1 planes being prepared). SV SE5. SV Bristol Fighter. LV Handley Page taxies toward camera. SV group of RFC types. SV RE8. SV FE 2B. SCU RFC types. SV airman standing up in nose of old RFC Mauritius III preparing gun - last 8 shots library material).

Keywords

Displays; Aviation; Military; History and archaeology

Locations

Farnborough

Card file number

98058

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

150

Story extras:

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