Baby Born On Pan Am Jet En Route To Moscow

How to cite this film

‘UK Pan Am Baby’, [newsfilm, online], 28 Sep 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z017323 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)

Technical Info

Format / Codec: Flash / VP6
Source Format / Codec: MOV
Video Bitrate: 800 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
Frame Size: 640 x 480
Pixels Cropped At Encoding: Top: 0, Bottom: 0, Left: 90, Right: 90
Reason For Crop: Removal of video noise
Other Edits: Video was trimmed of first 7 seconds to remove AP title card

Slug

UK Pan Am Baby

Date

28 Sep 1973

Dateline

London

Script

A baby was born to a woman on a Pan Am jet en route from Washinton to Moscow. The jet touched down at Heathrow and the woman and baby were taken to hospital. A diplomatic incident was caused by a lack of official papers.

Shotlist

1. ms Mrs Oganessen on stretcher to ambulance
2. ms man carrying baby into ambulance
3. mcu official Pan Am car away
4. mcu air hostess (?) SOUNDBITE nervous but got on with it. The Russian Doctor spoke good English only problem was in putting on sterile gloves.

Film status

Syndicated

Processing date

28 Sep 1973

Processing location

London

Original film

Colour Positive

Original sound

Optical Sound On Film

Duration

00:00:53:00

Sources

AP Television

NoS ID

z017323

How to cite this record

'Baby Born On Pan Am Jet En Route To Moscow', 28 Sep 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z017323 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)

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