Hovershow '66

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Release Date: 19th June 1966
Asset ID: 802051
Synopsis: A Film about the first Hover trade show. Featured are all the usual hovercraft as well as mock ups of the next generation, and Lord Mountbatten
Shotlist: Aerials over hovercraft at Browndown; spectators; operators; international flags; helicopter landing; crowd watching; Lord Mountbatten greeting officials; hovercraft stationery on land; Mountbatten walking into hovercraft exhibition pavilion; radio controlled hovercraft model outside; tract hovercraft showing concept of 300mph hover train system; people boarding hovercraft; Mountbatten boarding hovercraft; GVs different hovercraft; pioneers of hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell (inventor of hovercraft) and wife; Assistant Director of Aircraft Research at the Ministry of Supply R.A. Shaw; Dick Stanton-Jones MD of British Hovercraft Corp.; Commander Stanley Orr; pioneers getting out of hovercraft on land, spectators; Lord Mountbatten speaking to crowd; hovercraft taking off across land and into water; hovercraft returning to land; 10:07:15 military hovercraft, hovercraft landing and soldiers running out; soldiers getting into hovercraft and taking off; hovercraft at mock crash at sea; aerials of hovercraft at sea; 10:12:11 END
Production Company: None
Licensing Restrictions: Music, Artiste
Viewing Restrictions: Public
Format: Digibeta_Small
Alternative Language Notes: None