British Air Transport
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Ever since the Wright Brothers flew that amazing distance of 120 feet, 75 years ago man’s been exploring every conceivable aspect of air transport. In this report Lyndall Hobbs sees just how the British aircraft industry has come a long way to recognise that, while the glamour of a Concorde is undeniable, it’s those buses, trains, trucks and taxis of the airways that are really becoming the earthshrinkers.
- Researcher Comments
- Makes extensive use of library footage from British Airways, Hawker-Siddeley Dynamics, the BBC and COI as well as a small amount of original footage. Aircraft featured include Concorde, Skytrain, HS125, Bulldog, Islander, and Trilander. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 568’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Aircraft; Transport
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/994
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lyndall Hobbs
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'British Air Transport', This Week In Britain Issue No. 994, 1978. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329235 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)