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Vickers shipbuilding
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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Vickers Supermarine design HQ. Manufacturing. Test flights.
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine B&W film chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design from the Supermarine in 1925, through the Supermarine 4 monoplane, the S5, S6, S6B, Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful, Attacker, 508, 510, 535, to...
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Workers of Britain, city life, military life, soldiers, women and men in arms factories, pilots, bouncing bomb, fighter aircraft
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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WW1 aircraft and pilots, military funeral of legendary German fighter pilot, Baron von Richtofen
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Wind in the Wires
35mm cinema short on the history of aviation/flight narrated by James Mason. This highly successful film was widely distributed across UK cinemas in 1972, and was voted Top Documentary of the Year. Contains very rare footage of Wright...
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Concorde 002, maiden UK flight, 1969 -1
Clip from the award-winning documentary on the Concorde's first flights from France and the UK in 1969. This is the only colour footage of Concorde's first flights. This subclip features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from Filton,...
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Farnborough Airshow 4
Various aircraft on display at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s. exact date unknown.
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Farnborough Airshow 5
Various aircraft on display at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s. exact date unknown.
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Farnborough Airshow 6
Various aircraft on display at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s. exact date unknown.
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Man in the Sky
35mm Panavision colour cinema short, produced by Buff Films 1981/1982. Writer/Director/Producer John Edwards. Man in the Sky is a biopic about David Perrin, young world-class aerobatic stunt pilot, following him in training and aerobatic...
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John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, first aviators to cross Atlantic. Smith brothers, first aviators to fly to Australia from USA.
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Vickers aircraft in construction, design and in flight. C20th scientific and industrial innovation.
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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Vickers Aviation
A film about 50 years of achievement on road and in the air by Vickers Aviation, beginning at Brooklands in 1907. The film shows vintage racing cars, and the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1907, then follows the invention of early flying...
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Test flight of the record-breaking Supermarine Swift in the North African desert, 1953
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Record breaking Supermarine fighter, The Swift.
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Two. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
A Line Is Drawn. Part Two. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Four. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Three. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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They Made News Prog 3, part 8: Sam Greenwald talks about filming D-Day in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
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Rothmans Air Display, Greece, and England, 1981
Rothmans Air Display, Greece, and England, 1981
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The English Electric Lightning supersonic fighter jet, 1954 -1
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The English Electric Lightning in action with scramble. (in part, audio sync issue)
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The Hawker Hunter jet; rare footage of the Black Arrows in the 1970s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The Hawker Hunter. (in part, audio sync issue). Very rare footage of the 22-jet aerobatic team, the Black Arrows, who...
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She Flies - A film about the Concorde
This iconic award-winning film documents the supersonic Mach 11 aircraft, the Concorde 001, and its first flight from Blagnac, Toulouse, France in March 1969. The end of the film features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from the UK,...
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The French Dassault Mirage supersonic fighter jet, 1955
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Dassault Mirage jets on runway. (audio sync issue)
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Supersonic jets at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Farnborough Airshow 1956. Jets take off (audio sync issue)