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Title: RED ARROWS; RAF TRAINING FILM

Reference number: 6254

Date: 1971, June 26

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.52 mins

Description: The Red Arrows flying at the Edinburgh Air Show, followed by an RAF training film showing how to control aircraft.

There is a confusion over dating this film - it is possibly 1967 or 26/6/71, based on paper records.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - cannot find a ref for this this record in diary.

See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 597, manual control track]

(0.00) [no title credits] Red Arrows flying in formation in sky at the Edinburgh Air Show (4.55) [for an instant the footage appears as neg] shot of Martin B-26 Marauder bomber no.46 in flight - SUMMARY shows US Army Curtiss Warhawk fighter no.0582 dipping and moving down to earth rapidly, pilot operates engine and propellor - fighter takes off intercut with ints steering and cockpit controls, landing - steam rollers about four of them are seen briefly in foreground, then footage Warhawk landing, rollers in background, ints cockpit controls again (9.55) EMERGENCY MANUAL CONTROL gvs manual demonstration of this, much as preceding footage (10.38) MULTI ENGINE INSTALLATIONS (FEATHERING) - Marauder in flight and shots in cockpit, gvs manual demonstration of this, much as preceding footage, one engine propellor is stopped - END OF 1 - 463 TRAINING FILM (11.52)