Model Gliding Championships

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2513

Date Released

31 Jul 1977

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Model Gliding Championships. DESCRIPTION: Teams from eleven countries competed at Pretoria in the ‘Radio Controlled Soaring Gliding Championships’. The winner was Skip Miller from the United States of America. SHOTLIST: LS Dale Nutters (USA) model glider in air. LS ditto. MS spectators. MS competitors with their gliders. MCU list of competitors. MS American Skip Miller with glider. CU tail of glider. MS Skip Miller showing glider to girl. MS Switzerland’s Gassman launches his glider. MS man watching. LS Gassman’s glider. MS Dale Nutter (USA) launches his glider. MS USA’s Lemon Payne launches his craft. MS Canada’s Julius Topf launches glider. American team - one man with controls. Italy’s Paolo Casedi launches glider. Women watch. LS Pan Casedi’s plane lands. MS South Africa’s Frikkie Roos launches craft. Germany’s Friedhelm Schiboor, launches craft. MS people watching. MS German craft. MS Luxembourg team launch their craft. LS glider in flight. MS UKs Neville Mattingley launches craft. MS Austrian Stefan Smith tows craft into air. LS glider in air. MS group looks up. LS glider in air (helicopter appears top of frame). Glider lands. Swiss and Americans congratulate each other. USA won.

Keywords

Aviation; Competitions

Locations

South Africa; Pretoria

Card file number

77/106

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

213

Story extras:

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