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Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: It’s the plane that’s aroused more controversy and more excitement than almost any other plane in the history of aviation. 1976 sees Concorde flying us into a new supersonic age with the world’s first commercial supersonic flight. Gail Spiro visits Concorde before take-off and talks to pilot, John Cochran on what it’s like to fly Concorde 10 miles up at twice the speed of sound.
- Researcher Comments
- The location is RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Aviation; Aircraft
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/892
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Alan Bendig
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eric Halliday
- Presenter
- Esmeralda Reyna
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Gail Spiro
- Presenter
- Nadim Sawalha
- Commentator
- Sylvia Eley
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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