Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Jet Speed Attempt
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meteor on Test. DESCRIPTION: The Meteor has again broken the Air Speed Record piloted by Group Captain Donaldson. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS Meteor wheel out of hangar. Various parts of the plane, fuselage, engine etc. Engine being tuned up. Group Captain Donaldson looks on. Donaldson puts finger in ears. At Worthing, small crowds on beach, shots of Meteor plane flashing past, cut-ins of various instruments, including timing camera etc. Radio operators at work. Various shots of plane flashing along coast just above sea level.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Records
- Locations
- Sussex; Tangmere
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
Pathe
- Card file number
- 47340
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- David Prosser
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 140
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Jet Speed Attempt', British Movietone News Issue No. 898, 19 Aug 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/13988 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)