Learning on ScreenEuropean Gliding Championships
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: European Gliding Championships. DESCRIPTION: Dunstable Downs, setting for the European Gliding Championships. Movietone takes to the air to give you a bird’s eye view of the competition. SHOTLIST: GV mass of gliders being prepared. SV White being strapped into cockpit. SV Mrs Riechann polishing canopy of husband’s glider. GV John Williamson checking balance of wings on Kestrel 19. SV Cardiff fills wings with water ballast. GBV White, No 191, being towed away for take off. LV other gliders waiting to take off. SV Jones, No 90, in cockpit. GV pan glider No 90 being towed away for take off. SV Tesch being strapped into cockpit of glider Kilo Tango. CU dashboard controls with computer. GV pan another glider being towed away for take-off. CU interior glider, behind pilot’s head, of take off. GV ground to air five gliders in flight. SV from cockpit - glider banking. SV from glider of another glider going past. CU pilot. LV two gliders in air. SCU ditto. SV glider banking. LV two gliders passing each other. SV glider pilot banking. LV glider flying low of countryside. SV from cockpit of glider coming in to land. GV pan glider landing.
- Keywords
- Sport; Aviation
- Locations
- Dunstable Downs
- Card file number
- 98411
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 140
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