THE FLYING SKYSCRAPER [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE FLYING SKYSCRAPER [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 156
  • Other titles: BRABAZON - KING OF THE AIR [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: The development of the Bristol Brabazon airliner, from its first conception in 1943 to the prototype's maiden flight on September 4 1949.
  • Description: Meetings of a planning committee and the doodles' on their note pads (re-enacted material); production of detailed plans in the design room; chief designer Russell with a model (diagram compares eventual size to Statue of Liberty); construction of wooden mock-up; building of a vast new hangar for final assembly; construction work; Chief Test Pilot Pegg in a special workshop containing (dismounted) replicas of all controls and moving surfaces; test-running engines; moving half-built prototype to new hangar; construction completed; prototype wheeled out; last tests, public gallery; taxiing; first take-off, from specially built runway.
  • Alternative Title: BRABAZON - KING OF THE AIR [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: COI 156
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1949
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Crown Film Unit (Production company) Mills, John (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Russell, Archibald E (person) Pegg, Arthur J (person)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - transport: Bristol Brabazon & [R and D] (object name) industry, British - aircraft: Bristol Brabazon (object name) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 849 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    COI 156

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