Sonic Bangs For Aviation Minister (1965)

Title reads: “SONIC BANGS FOR AVIATION MINISTER“. Sound barrier noise demonstration by planes at Upwood, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire? L/S village. C/U signpost. Various shots press and VIPs gathered for demonstration; including MP Roy Jenkins (Minister of Aviation), MP John Stonehouse (Parliamentary Secretary to Jenkins), Sir Giles Guthrie (BOAC Chairmen), Sir Rupert Speir (local MP) and various French aviation officials. L/S tall pole with microphone on top, zoom into microphone. Panning shot Lightning aeroplane taking off. M/S sound recording van. M/S inside van of man operating recording equipment. C/U dial. Panning shot 3 Lightnings zoom past camera. Village street scene. C/U mother with young child looking skywards at planes. Comet flies over houses. C/U Ivor Edwards looking skywards, pan to his greenhouses. Interior of greenhouse, an official tests noise with instrument. Comet flies over the field. M/S VIPs looking skywards. Lightening jets fly past at speed overhead.