Italy To Australia Air Flight (1952)

Calcutta, India & Rangoon, Burma. Title reads ’Dall’ Italia agli antipodi - Dal nostro operatore Mario Fioretti al seguito di Maner Lualdi invialo speciale e pilola del ’Corriere Della Sera’ - Da Calcutta a Rangoon’. CU. Man (possibly Mario Fioretti) reading an English newspaper. CU. Newspaper headline ’Cyclone may hit Calcutta’. MS. Man putting miniature Christmas tree onto plane. MS. Friends bringing crew Christmas presents, men hug and smile. CU. Christmas cake, a present for the flyers. Two Italian men Lualdi and Fioretti are preparing for record breaking flight from Calcutta to Rangoon. CU. The two flyers drinking from cups. MS. Woman looking at children playing with Christmas presents - children of pilots in Rome. MS. Woman and little boy in Rome looking at photo of one of the flyers. LS. Flyers canoeing - Rangoon. CU. Canoe paddle. LS. & MS. Pilots are welcomed by the Italian colony in Rangoon. CU. Sign - “BIRMANIA - ITALIA“. CU. One of the flyers eating spaghetti. LS. Burmese tapping the rubber