Selected Originals - 50 Years Airborne - 62/49 (1962)
Selected Originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out takes, rushes) for story “50 Years Airborne“ - 62/49.
Similar to cut newsreel story (from which below description is copied):
RFC (Royal Flying Corps) - RAF fifty years airborne, Upavon in Wiltshire.
L/S Old type planes lined up preparing to take off. M/S Pilot in cockpit of . 1917 plane starts to taxi away. M/S The . 1917 plane taxies away and takes off. M/S The Avro Tutor 1931 mechanic cranking engine prop turns. L/S Avro Tutor about to taxi about with prop turning. C/U Pilot in cockpit. M/S . (Royal Air Force) officers walking. L/S Avro Tutor taxis away from take off. M/S Pan. Bristol Bulldog. 1931 flies past overhead. M/S A flying officer watching. M/S The Swordfish plane taxiing away showing large Torpedo slung under fuselage.
C/U The . 1917 flying into camera. L/S Inside hangar showing identical plane to the one in which Bleriot first flew the channel. C/U Of the prop of Bleriot’s plane. L/S Pan showing the Skeleton