10,000th Air Hospital Passenger

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2278A

Date Released

1 Feb 1973

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 10,000th Air Hospital Passenger. DESCRIPTION: Mrs Heads and her child homeward bound from Glasgow for Islay on the BEA Highlands and Islands Ambulance plane. SHOTLIST: LV zoom back to GV Islay Island. LV houses on island. SV signposts Bowmore and Ardbeg. LV sea with houses and church in background. CU statue of Scottish soldier. LV sea and part of island. SV group shot at Glasgow Airport, from left to right Mr Robert McKean Chairman of Scottish BEA, Mrs Anne Heads’ sister Margaret Carrick holding baby Alison Marie and Hugh Robb BEA Station Manager. CU Mrs Heads. CU nurse holding baby. SV McKean making presentation of bouquet to mother. CU McKean. SV mother holding baby followed by father onto plane. Shot through portholes engines, plane in flight. SV mother & father with baby. CU baby in father’s arms. CU pan from father to mother. GV BEA plane landing at Islay airport. SV wind sock. CU plane taxiing (BEA Scottish Airways). SV mother stepping down from plane followed by father holding large teddy. GV plane on tarmac. SV mother holding baby, standing beside Mr John McDermid, the first man to use the air ambulance service in 1933. LV one and only telephone box, sea in back ground. LV white horse whisky plant. SV mother and father at home with baby. GV Islay Island.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Aviation

Locations

Islay; Inner Hebrides

Card file number

98816

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

128

Story extras:

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