Hovercraft Over Channel (1959)

Title reads: “Hovercraft over Channel“. Calais, France and Dover, Kent. G/V hovercraft being prepared at Calais Harbour, camera pans to crowd lining the quayside. C/U French policeman looking on. G/V hovercraft being fuelled. C/U test pilot Peter Lamb. Angle shot: crane about to lift Hovercraft into water. Top shot: looking down on the Hovercraft as the engine starts up. C/U flap being tested. Top shot: hovercraft being lifted from the quayside and being placed on the water. C/U two French girls looking on. Top shot: the Hovercraft leaving the quayside as it starts off across the harbour waters. C/U two French men looking on. G/V hovercraft travelling out of Calais Harbour following a ship. L/S hovercraft throwing up clouds of spray around it as it speeds along. Panning shot from the cliffs of Dover to the Bleriot Memorial ceremony being held at the spot where pioneer aeroplane pilot Louis Bleriot landed after his first Channel crossing. C/U plaque to the memory of Bleriot on the spot wher