Title:DAILY EXPRESS AIR PAGEANT AT GATWICK AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6533
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY COLIN GIBSON [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Colin Gibson, a technical journalist for Kodak UK who briefly ran the Kodak Cine Club, records military and civil aircraft in flight overhead at this post-war air display (in August 1948 ?), watched by large crowds able to relax again in peacetime, plus a summer holiday in France in 1951.
Description: Reel 1: (B&W, Kodak date 1946) Aircraft shown include a de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor, Douglas DC-3, and white Avro Lincolns, Horsa glider, Auto Cierva Gyro. Flypasts and aeobatics take place close to the watching crowds.
Reel 2: (Colour) Shorter version of Reel 1, plus shots of family eating picnic seated on grass.
Reel 3: (Colour, Kodak date 1951) Family visits the CWGC cemetery at Soissons before seeing the sights of Paris, then departing from a Channel port (Dieppe?).
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY COLIN GIBSON [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W, Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 6533
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:
Production Date:1948
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gibson, Colin (Production individual)
