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Title: BEA HELICOPTER

Reference number: 8454

Date: 1960c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.16 mins

Description: News footage of test flights of a BEA Agusta Bell helicopter in a remote location.

[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 British European Airways Agusta Bell 47J helicopter G-APTH on trials: landing in remote field, being loaded, taking off again - shots of technicians refuelling - gvs of test camp, supplies, vehicles by roadside - helicopter takes off and flies low [black] shot of helicopter flying low over fields - gvs hilly scenery, helicopter in flight - shots of radio operator and observers - more shots of helicopter landing and taking off - technicians take equipment from helicopter as another man films in background - gvs of test camp and helicopter landing (3.16)