Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Plane Without Pilot Flies Atlantic
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pilot-Less Plane in England. DESCRIPTION: A plane recently flew the Atlantic piloted by a robot brain. SHOTLIST: KS GV of pilotless plane in hangar. Various close up shots of the brain shows intricate mechanism, equipment etc. CU visual dial. MS group of crew. SCU Colonel Gillespie speaking about trip, saying that except for pressing one button, not another instrument of any kind was touched. Amongst the group is the inventor James Anast. Several shots of RAF planes inside hangar. Various shots of pilotless plane.
- Keywords
- Aviation
- Locations
- Wiltshire; Hullavington
- Card file number
- 49214
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Hilton Craig
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 99
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Plane Without Pilot Flies Atlantic', British Movietone News Issue No. 956, 29 Sep 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14686 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)