London Air Crash
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: London Air Crash. DESCRIPTION: A once in a life-time chance for an amateur cameraman. Oldham Shopkeeper Frank Mills records the terrible Freighter crash at Heathrow airport as it happens. Movietone enlarges his film to present the harrowing moments of tragedy in which six people die in a four-plane pile-up. SHOTLIST: 2 sequences of Elizabethan plane crashing at Heathrow Airport on top of Trident aircraft. Note - this material was blown up from 8mm amateur film.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- London; United Kingdom; London Heathrow Airport
- Footage sources
- Press
Shand News
- Card file number
- 93712
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 65
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Film clip
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How to cite this record
'London Air Crash', British Movietone News Issue No. 2040, 8 Jul 1968. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27451 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)