Title:BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS (items): HENDON AIR PAGEANT 1934 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:RMY 206
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Summary: Three items from separate issues of British Movietone News, all relating to the Hendon Air Pageant held on 30 June 1934.
Description: I. "Picture paragraphs in the week's news." (British Movietone News Issue 260A, 31/5/1934) Hawker Harts of No 18 Squadron rehearse at Upper Heyford before the Pageant, taking off, flying in formation and landing.
II. "Tied together air drill." (Movietone News Theatre - British Movietone News Issue 262A, 14/6/1934) At RAF Hawkinge, Hawker Furies of No 25 Squadron take off abreast, each plane roped to its neighbours by elastic, and perform "evolutions in the sky" which are described by a female voice.
III. "RAF Air Pageant at Hendon." (British Movietone News Issue 265, 2/7/1934) HRH the Prince of Wales arrives in a Vickers Viastra at Hendon airfield on the day of the Pageant. Large crowds watch the various displays which include a Boulton Paul Overstrand shooting down a Bristol Bulldog fighter simulating war conditions, formation flying by Harts, a flypast by a Blackburn Perth and three Saro Cloud flying boats (actual Pageant commentary faintly audible), a bomb attack by a Vickers Virginia against skittles on the ground and finally the shooting down in flames of a barrage balloon.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 206
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1919-1938
Production Date:1934
Production Country: GB
Production Details: British Movietone News (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Edward, Prince (Duke of Windsor) (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 18 (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 25 (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hart (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Fury (object name)
ceremonies, British - display: aerobatics (object name)
aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Boulton Paul Overstrand (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Bulldog (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hart (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Vickers Virginia (object name)
aircraft, British - light civilian: Vickers Viastra (object name)
aircraft, British - seaplane: Blackburn Perth flying boat (object name)
aircraft, British - seaplane: Saunders-Roe Cloud flying boat (object name)
ceremonies, British - display: flypast (object name)
combat [simulated], British air (object name)
GB, England & Upper Heyford, Oxon <RAF Station> (geography)
GB, England & Hendon, Middx <RAF Station> (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: 472 ft; Running time: 5 mins
