Berlin Airlift Flight

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2311A
Date Released
20 Sep 1973
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Mr Heath and Mr Cosgrave Meet
  2. 2World Speedway Championship
  3. 3Berlin Airlift Flight
  4. 4News in Colour: RAF Battle of Britain

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Berlin Airlift Flight. DESCRIPTION: A Hastings Aircraft carries coal to Germany in commemoration of the Berlin Airlift 1948 - from Movietone’s Film Library, scenes from that historic occasion. SHOTLIST: GV RAF HQ Scampton. CU name RAF Scampton. GV the RAF Hastings plane on tarmac that took part in the Berlin Airlift in 1948. SV nose of ditto. LV pan Squadron Leader WJR ‘Chalky’ White walking towards plane. CU plaque on plane 1948/9. SV ditto pan down to White. CU White. CU Group Captain DJ Dodimead. SV crew about to carry a bag of coal on board. CU open bag pan down to words Berlin 1948/1973. SV pan crew carrying bag up steps of plane. LV interior showing one row of seats only. SV White at controls. SV engines start to warm up. GV 4 propellers turning. AS No 536 on tail of plane. GV pan Hastings plane takes off. CU pilot’s hand on throttle - start of 1948 Berlin Air Lift sequence - GAV 3 Hastings planes en route for German airfield. SV pan Hastings plane landing at German Airfield. TS approaching Hastings from truck. SV from plane truck approaching entrance. SV truck closing into plane. SV unloading sack from truck into plane. SV pan Hastings plane takes off en route to RAF Gatow in Berlin. CU pilot at controls. GAV flying over Berlin corridor. SV A to A Hastings plane. GV plane plane assembled and arriving at RAF Gatow in Berlin. LV plane taxiing in, SV sign RAF STATION GATOW. GV plane taxiing in with supplies. SV batman. LV another plane taxiing. 5 SVs unloading sacks of coal from plane into truck, emptying coal into railway truck, then into coal barges, train over bridge with coal truck. SV large heap of coal.
Keywords
Commemorations; Aviation; Celebrations and festivals
Locations
Lincolnshire; Scampton
Card file number
99373
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
197
Story extras:
Film clip

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