Summary: Promotional film for the Anglo-French supersonic civil airliner, Concorde, featuring a fictional flight from Sydney, Australia, to London, England.
Description: Film opens with a model diorama of a busy airport, complete with a model Concorde in BOAC livery. Switches to live staged action, with actors posing as passengers boarding a life sized scale Concorde fuselage section. Once seated, the passengers are greeted on the tannoy system by an air hostess, who welcomes the passengers and provides them with further details of their flight to London, including scheduled stops and flight times. Further staged scenes in a full scale cockpit section feature the pilot and co-pilot making their final pre-flight checks prior to take off. Film ends with the aircraft being cleared for take off, with take off depicted by an animated graphic.
Production Details: Sud Aviation (Production sponsor)
British Aircraft Corporation (Production sponsor)
British Aircraft Corporation (Production company)
Sud Aviation (Production company)
