Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Woman Pilot Breaks Air Record
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 8
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Woman Pilot Breaks Air Record. DESCRIPTION: During the Air Race meeting at Lympne, Lettice Curtis set a new International and British women’s record with an average 313.07 miles an hour. SHOTLIST: KS MS Spitfire in flight. MS jet propelled Vampire. Lettice Curtis in cockpit of Spitfire. Spitfire takes off. Vampire takes off (piloted by Group Captain ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham not seen). Cut-ins SCU Douglas Fairbanks Jnr & Noel Coward. SCU Valerie Hobson. Various shots of Spitfire performing, breaking record. Cut-in SCU watcher with rather large moustache. Lettice Curtis congratulated by Flight Lt Colquhoun.
- Keywords
- Women; Aviation
- Locations
- Lympne
- Card file number
- 50701
- Credits:
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- Camera
- David W. Samuelson
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 107
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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Woman Pilot Breaks Air Record', British Movietone News Issue No. 1004A, 2 Sep 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/15296 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)