Riding on Air

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1825
Date Released
25 May 1964
Date Other
May 1964
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riding on Air. DESCRIPTION: Gliding is a pastime and a serious sport, especially serious during the week of the National Gliding Championships at Lasham. And here’s the champion woman pilot, Mrs Anne Burns, who holds 4 world and a host of British records. Incidentally, the British team for next year’s World Championships will be selected from the winners of the first 15 places. We went up where the thermals are, away from the madding ground, into a world that’s strictly for the birds and the birdmen. On the beach at Le Touquet, we got a pretty vivid impression of Aeroplage - or sand-yachting. It has one advantage over gliding: if you overstep the mark, it’s not so far to fall! SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS man closes cockpit of glider. LAS glider. CU sign Dart. MS pan glider takes off. MLS pan glider No 79 along runway. MCU woman pilot Mrs Anne Burns gets cockpit closed. MS pan glider pulled by plane along runway and takes off. Air to air glider (4 shots). Air to air glider No 30 peels away. Slip pan. MS yachts race on sand at beach. MLS pan same. MCU sand yacht along beach. CU wheels of sand yacht. TS yacht. MCU driver of yacht. TS yachts racing on sand. TS same. MS pan same. LAS sand yachts over camera. MLS yacht over top of man. TS two men tilt yacht on two wheels. TS one man tilts yacht on two wheels. TS man rides along on two wheels. TS another turns sand yacht over.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Aviation
Locations
France; Hampshire; Le Touquet; Lasham
Footage sources
France
Card file number
88350
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Mark McDonald
Length of story (in feet)
212
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Riding on Air', British Movietone News Issue No. 1825, 25 May 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/25550 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)