Title:CONVERTED - BEING A FILM BASED ON THE SAFETY OF MODERN AVIATION [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 6568
Other titles:AMATEUR PROMOTIONAL FILM [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur promotional film for attracting members of the public to experience the safe thrills of flying, either as passengers paying for short pleasure flights or as spectators watching aerobatics and wing-walking on Avro 504K biplanes, flown by former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) pilots applying skills learned in the Great War for peacetime reward with the Cornwall Aviation Company.
Description: Opening credits introduce the main protagonists of the Cornwall Aviation Co Ltd, St Austell: the pilots Captain P Phillips DFC, Captain D Cameron MBE and Mr Summerfield, Albert J Adams (Aerial Acrobat), B L Middleton (An enthusiast), H F Gibbs (A sceptic) and Q Sawyer (A lady aviator). Two men seated outdoors (Captain Phillips and Captain Cameron?) scan their company's advertisement in newspaper for flights from Hedge Lane, Palmers Green (North London) then drive off in a 1920s car. "Be up to date and aviate" proclaims a poster at the site. Aerial views from biplane over town and country. One of the Company's Avro 504K biplanes (G-EBIZ) lands in field. Civilian confidence in the safety of new pastime is built up before members of the public are "Converted". Meticulous checking of engine. "Over 40000 passengers carried without mishap." Crowds admire Avro 504K (serial number H2234, civil registration G-EBSE) on ground. Aerobatics filmed from ground prompts question, "But how do they see us?" Lady aviator climbs into plane prior to cine camera providing the answer, with views from the plane and from ground of spinning nose dive, spiral turns and half roll. Wing-walking (probably by Albert Adams). Back on land the three pilots drink to the future of aviation and to the prosperity of the Cornwall Aviation Company.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR PROMOTIONAL FILM [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Cornwall Aviation Company, St Austell (Production sponsor)
Cornwall Aviation Company, St Austell (Production company)
Sawyer, F (Production individual)
Sawyer, F (Production individual)
