Model Planes

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2251

Date Released

24 Jul 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Model Planes. DESCRIPTION: Weighing no more than a gram each, elastic powered model planes were flown many hundreds of feet below ground in a salt mine. At this depth there are no currents of air to disturb the flight. SHOTLIST: SV competitors entering salt mines in Romania, SV as they get into lift. SV lift goes up with load of competitors. GV competitors walk into large cavern. SV men preparing model planes. SV other men preparing planes, one winding up elastic. LV competitor launches plane and it flies slowly away. SV another competitor launches model, pan with plane as it flies around cavern. SCU another plane launched. LVB plane flying slowly round cavern. GV another model lunched. CU angle shot plane flies overhead. SCU another plane launched, pull back as it flies across cavern, zoom in to CU.

Keywords

Curiosities; Aviation

Locations

Romania

Footage sources

France

Card file number

98317

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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