Helicopter Girl (1955)

London. M/S of a woman wearing the two piece swimming costume waiting on a platform for helicopter to come close enough to her so she can take some ropes from it. M/S of the helicopter rising as soon as she reaches her ropes. This is Madame Andree Jan, wife of a French businessman, who “is the girl on the really flying trapeze!“ L/S of the girl who is becoming smaller as the helicopter rises. “More then hundred feet above the Thames, at Battersea’s Festival Gardens, Mrs Jan goes though hair-raising act that has already thrilled Paris... in fact the act is so risky that on the Continent no-one will insure her...“. L/S of Mrs Jan hanging up side down on the trapeze tied to a helicopter. Camera pans up to show the helicopter. M/S of Mrs Jan twisting and turning on the trapeze hanging from the helicopter. Extreme L/S demonstrates how high the helicopter goes. It is almost impossible to see the helicopter while Mrs Jan is just a dot in the air. Camera pans down to show a boat on Thames. Extreme L/S show