Concorde into Transatlantic Service

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2531
Date Released
4 Dec 1977
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Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Concorde Inaugural Flight to USA. DESCRIPTION: Since January, 1976, Concorde has been flying a regular service to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Now Concorde has reached another milestone in its history with the inaugural flight of the transatlantic service to New York. From Movietone’s archives we take a look at some of the aircraft that in the past pioneered Civil Aviation, such as the ‘Comet’, the first passenger jet service, started 25 years ago, between London and Johannesburg. Earlier in November the Queen and Prince Philip arrived at Heathrow in Concorde, having flown from Barbados in a record time. It was Her Majesty’s first trip in the supersonic plane. Concorde’s inaugural flight to New York left London Heathrow at 10.29 and 3 hours 23 minutes later touched down at Kennedy Airport. The Air France Concorde also on its first flight to New York, arrived just before the British Airways craft. SHOTLIST: (Bahrain section shot earlier in the year). Bahrain: LS Bahrain Airport at sunrise. GV ditto. LS airport building and sign. MS Concorde sign pan to waiting room. CU champagne. poured into glass. CU waiter. MS man accepts champagne. CU sign Flight BA301 - destination London. MS woman photographs Concorde through lounge window. MS Concorde at Bahrain, passenger arm. MCU passengers into aircraft. LAS Concorde. MLS Concorde taxiing into picture. GV ditto. GV Bahrain Airport building. GV pan Concorde takes off. B/W - Library Material: CU Comet engine. GV Comet door close. GV Comet taxing. GV Comet takes off. AV clouds. GV Johannesburg. GV Comet landing. MS passenger off. CU propeller. MS ditto. GV ditto. GV takes off. Air to air comet. Ditto. Syrinx of Imperial Airways taxiing, GV passengers leave Syrinx. Fast Motion section: Sign ‘Brussels’. Plane taxiing. mechanics work on the aircraft. Loading luggage. Passengers to aircraft. Passengers boarding same. Plane taxing. LS Caledonia seaplane landing. GV ditto. CU nose of Caledonia. Interior cockpit. Interior pilot at controls. GV Caledonia takes off. CU nose of Viscount. MS Viscount. MS spectators. GV Viscount takes off. GV Air to air clouds. Comet lands, Comet taxiing. End of B/W section. Trident takes off. Boeing 747 takes off. MS steps put up to Concorde door. GV the officials waiting. MS the Queen and Prince Philip out of Concorde. MS officials waiting. MS the Queen and Prince Philip out of Concorde. MS officials waiting. MCU Queen and Duke down steps. CU sign Concorde check-in. CU sign Concorde ticket at check-in. MS hostess with tickets. CU tickets. LAS Concorde. MS Hugh Scanlon boarding aircraft. GV ditto. LAS nose of Concorde, GV Concorde at Heathrow. GV Concorde nose and taxiing. GV ditto. Library Material- CU sign ‘Fasten Seat Belt - No Smoking’. CU view through window. GV pan Concorde takes off at Heathrow. Library Material - CU air to air nose of Concorde. GV air to air Concorde in flight. GV interior passenger cabin. CU dial - air air speed show Mach one. GV air to air Concorde. GV New York. Library Material - Air to air Concorde. GV Kennedy Airport - New York. MS photographers. GV French Concorde lands. GV British Concorde lands. CU press. MCU pilot. MCU pilot gives thumps-up sign from cockpit. GV British and French Concordes on the runway.
Keywords
Aviation
Locations
London; New York; Bahrain
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
77/212
Credits:
Camera
Denis White
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Camera
Richard Day
Length of story (in feet)
641
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