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Title: PRESTWICK AIRPORT I

Reference number: 8462

Date: 1959c

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 2.28 mins

Description: News aerial footage of the site of Prestwick Airport and surrounding countryside at the start of the expansion of the airport in the late 1950s - includes footage of the Prestwick to Monkton road crossing the runway.

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Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - brief shots of dormitory interior and accommodation block, possibly at Prestwick Airport? - [black] - aerial shots flying around Prestwick Airport, showing new runway extension at the west end prior to building of the new perimeter road, aircraft and freight hangars, designated site for new terminal building, full length of runway and sea in distance, main road from Prestwick to Monkton - closer shots of road works around runway extension - main road and traffic crossing the runway is just visible as the plane comes in to land (2.28)