Moscow London Air Service Opens (1959)

Unused / unissued material - A Moscow to London regular air service opened by British European Airways. Two shots of turbo-prop Viscount plane taxing in at Vnukovo Airport. CU Engine, propeller. CU Part of body showing sign “BEA“. MS Viscount. MS Officials walking across airfield. Various shots of people coming off plane, among them John Hay, Lord Douglas, Lord Killearn, Captain Henry B Kerby, Sir Norman Hulbert, Christopher Mayhew, Anthony Greenwood, Frank Beswick. They are welcomed by Air Marshal PF Zhigarev, KA Gubin, MB Mitin and Sir Patrick Reilly, British Ambassador. Two CU’s. plane. VS members of the crew leaving plane. (Mute Lav.) Old record suggests material dates from around 14/05/1959. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historic