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Title: BEA HANDLEY PAGE HERALD ON PROVING FLIGHT

Reference number: 8460

Date: 1959, December

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.05 mins

Description: News footage of a new BEA Handley Page Herald aircraft on a Scottish proving flight, arriving from England at Renfrew Airport and flying to Machrihanish.

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Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - shots of British European Airways Handley Page Herald G-APWA coming in to land at Renfrew Airport, taxiing and sitting on tarmac - shot from inside aircraft as it lands - closer shots of Herald stationary on tarmac - shots of Herald taking off, in flight and landing again (1.33) aerial shots from inside aircraft over coast and hills - shots of group of workmen being interviewed next to Herald on tarmac - more aerial shots over coast and circling coastal airfield - shots of Herald landing and on tarmac beside control tower at Machrihanish airfield(3.05)