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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)