OPENING OF GLIDING SCHOOL 1/2
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Title: OPENING OF GLIDING SCHOOL 1/2
Reference number: 8447
Date: 1960c
Production company: Templar Film Studios
Sound: mute
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: Non-Fiction
Running time: 3.06 mins
Description:
News footage of a visit by senior RAF and Royal Navy officers to the Air Training Corps gliding school at Abbotsinch.
[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker]
Shotlist:
[shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]
[no title] - shots of lines of Air Cadets performing rifle drill outside airfield hangar - c/u shots of commanding officer - shots of senior RAF and Royal Navy officers getting out of limousine outside hangar at Abbotsinch - senior officer inspects ranks of Cadets - shot of line of RAF technicians and personnel standing to attention in front of glider, decommissioned aircraft parts visible in back of hangar - shot of seated audience of officers and women - senior officer inspects ranks of technicians and RAF personnel (2.25) l/s of hangar - group of officers crosses over to another hangar to inspect an Air Cadets glider (3.06)