News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

67/27

Date Released

3 Apr 1967

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Good Quads
• 2. Stately Safari
• 3. Windjammer
• 4. Boeing 707 On New Route

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

33 hours for a flight half-way round the world. Pathe News went aboard the Rolls Royce powered 707 for BOAC’s inaugural flight on the South Trans-Pacific route. It’s the first time a British airline has blazed this air trail which speeds passengers through New York, San Francisco, Honolulu across the dateline and equator, to Fiji and then to Sydney. It was a fantastic journey started in a boom year for BOAC which has just announced record profits of £23,000,000. What a contrast to the clipper ships of yesteryear.

Keywords

Aviation

Footage sources

Film Centre
Library

Credits:

Camera

Cedric Baynes

Length of story (in feet)

393

Story extras:

Film clip

Pathe Icon Pathé

You may need to login in to external websites.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Pathe Ltd

Email

info@britishpathe.com

Web

https://www.britishpathe.com/

Phone

0207 665 8340

Address

3.29 Canterbury Court
1-3 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6DE

Notes

Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

Series held

View all series held by British Pathe Ltd