What Future for Giants?

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1934
Date Released
27 Jun 1966
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: What of the Giants?. DESCRIPTION: Aircraft production is gradually decreasing. SHOTLIST: Key Scene. GV Belfast freighter on tarmac. GV ditto showing rear entrance. TS into entrance of Belfast. MS entrance to freighter closing. MS interior cockpit. GV pan Belfast freighter takes off. MS of engines looking through port-hole. MS interior cockpit. MCU interior ditto. LS passengers inside freighter. MS ditto. MS pan ditto. CU dials on control panel in cockpit. MS ditto. GV pan Belfast freighter flies low over airfield. Pan Brabazon aircraft in flight. Pan ditto. Zoom out model of Concorde. GV American XB-70 aircraft taxiing on tarmac. BS ditto. GV pan XB-70 takes off. Air to air XB-70 in flight with other observer aircraft. Ditto XB-70 in flight. Air to air ditto. Ditto. Air to air XB-70 collides with one of the observer aircraft. Ditto falling towards ground leaving smoke trail. Aerial shot crashed XB-70 on ground. AS ditto. AS rescue helicopter landing near crash. AS crashed XB-70 on ground. LS rescuers looking around crashed XB-70. MS part of XB-70 on ground. GV crashed XB-70.
Keywords
Aviation
Locations
California; Farnborough
Footage sources
France
Library
Card file number
91264
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
261
Story extras:
Film clip

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'What Future for Giants?', British Movietone News Issue No. 1934, 27 Jun 1966. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/26484 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)