Up, Up and Away

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2068
Date Released
20 Jan 1969
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Up, Up and Away. DESCRIPTION: Contrasts in aviation! The fantastic Short-take-off and Landing Skyvan, operating in the remote mountain areas of New Guinea, lands on a hundred-yard strip of grass. In Moscow, the Tupolev 144 steals the thunder from Concorde by becoming the world’s first Supersonic airliner to fly. In Vietnam, the Flying Crane Helicopter saves hours of muscle power in the mud, transporting mobile gun platforms around the swamps of the Mekong Delta. In Britain, the RAF and the Navy try out the first of the hundred and seventy Phantom Jets which Britain has ordered from America. SHOTLIST: GV pan Short Skyvan takes off, in New Guinea. Air to ground jungle and mountains. CU pilot. MS car inside Skyvan. Air to ground Skyvan coming into land. Air to ground through windscreen at airstrip. MLS Skyvan lands. MS natives watching. MLS car driven out of Skyvan. MS pan Tupolev 144 Russian Supersonic airliner. MLS ditto. MS nose of ditto. MCU pan pilots. GV pan Tupolev 144 takes off. Air to air (2 shots) ditto. MLS pan Tupolev 144 lands. Ground to air Flying Crane Helicopter carrying mobile gun platforms in Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Air to ground swamps. Ground to air zoom out helicopter with gun platform. Air to ground troops on ground. MS platform lowered onto ground. MS platform released. MLS copter flies off. MS field gun. BS gun fired. MS gun fired. CU man in helicopter. Air to ground men on ground. Air to ground platform with gun attached to copter. MLS pan up helicopter lifts gun and platform. Air to ground line of Phantom Fighter Bombers at Coningsby, Lincs. MS Phantom in hangar. MS rockets under wing. MCU rockets on ground. MS rockets under wing. MS napalm bombs under wing. MS one of Phantoms. BS Phantom. MLS pilots walk to aircraft. MS ditto. LAS pilots enter cockpit. BS man signalling to aircraft. CU controller. MS pan Phantom taxiing. GV pan Phantom takes off. CU RAF officer. Air to ground two Phantoms past. MS pan Sea Vixens on tarmac. CU Navy Insignia at Yeovilton. MS (2 shots) pilots climb into Phantoms. TS pan ditto. MCU pilots put on helmet. GV pan Phantom takes off. Air to air Phantom. Air to air (2 shots) formation of Phantoms. Ground to air formation of Phantoms past.
Keywords
Environment; Weapons; Aviation; Military
Locations
Moscow; New Guinea; Yeovilton; Mekong Delta; Coningsby
Footage sources
Australia
France
Kay’s Labs
Card file number
94309
Credits:
Camera
John Mould
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Roy Page
Length of story (in feet)
341
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Up, Up and Away', British Movietone News Issue No. 2068, 20 Jan 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27711 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)