WINGS TO GREAT BRITAIN

Year Published: 1966

Format: 16mm

Description: Consider becoming a channel member • Help us preserve more films -- become... Dating to 1966, "Wings to Great Britain" promotes Pan Am's trans-Atlantic service. It was photographed and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Henry Strauss. Strauss' body of work included a series of ground-breaking industrial and human relations training films produced for Pan American Airlines, GE and AT&T. He is the subject of the documentary "Man and the Middle Class". The script was written by Allan Sloane and the film was edited by Bill Buckley. Opening animated Pan Am focus leader - volume control - Pan Am Presents "Wings To Great Britain" (:07-1:23). London Tower Bridge. Big Ben. Bobbie policeman. Cricket game. Man cranks a boat. People move. British costume. People row a boat. British soldier. Everyday people in Britain. A crowd gathers. A band marches and plays on. A glider in the sky. Aerial shots of Britain (1:24-3:25). Cliffs and ocean water. People at work in a field. Mountain. Grass. Trees. British tall ships. Cannons are fired. Sail boats at sea. Royal Yacht Squadron. People watch yachts that go by (3:26-5:20). A kite in the sky. Fishermen at work on a boat, the Bonny Mary in Penzance, Cornwall. Mountains. Men fish from a small boat. Ships in the harbor. Fish and chips. Men exit a boat. Moving van drives on a tight road. Montage of signs for various British pubs (5:21-7:27). Chimney smokes. Trees. Clouds in the sky. Valley in Yorkshire. A small village. English dancers dance as a man plays a fiddle. People watch. Boats at a dock (7:28-8:55). Down a river, houses off to the side. Stratford town. A garden. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford. The town of Stratford. Cars drive, people walk (8:56-11:11). Children walk. A man walks near sheep. A forest. A mountain. Tall ships including the famed Cutty Sark at Greenwich, in south-east London. Cemetery. Reef. Jamaica Inn sign, Devenish Free House. Water flows in a stream. Steam powered amusement park rides as a barker exclaims "roll up, roll up!" (11:12-12:47). Amusement park rides at night lit up. A person fixes his bicycle. A bicycle race on English roads. A crowd watches a parade at Langham, on the border with Scotland. Common Riding flag. (Common Riding is an equestrian tradition mainly in the Scottish Borders where riders commemorate raids on the Anglo-Scottish border known as the Border Reivers.) (12:48-14:12). Horses with riders head through the heather. Remnants of Hadrians's Wall, the famed defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia. Highland games and feats of strength. Wrestle one another. Women eat and watch. Men throw heavy logs as part of the caber toss. A perfect toss for one man. Men in kilts. Bagpipes are played and men and women dance (14:13-16:43). A parade as men play bagpipes. They walk down a road. Castles in ruins. Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. Children play (16:44-18:34). London. Buildings and pubs. A person walks by. Trafalgar Square. Lord Nelson's Column. Kensington Gardens. A couple eats at a cafe. London apartments. Aerial shot of London (18:35-20:17). Buckingham Palace and the trooping of the Royal Guard. Horses. London Bridge. Horse drawn carriage. British soldiers (20:18-21:30). A parade of British soldiers. Outdoor art show. A man draws on a sidewalk. Houseboat. Chelsea Gardens. People look and walk. A woman walks and holds a dog (21:31-23:15). Shoppes in London. The Paddington Main Line Station. Harman and Lambert antique shop on Bond Street. Tall buildings. Streets of London. Statues. Church steeples. Parade (23:16-24:30). "Irish Independent" newspaper office as viewed from a black cab. Flea market in London. People look at wares. an old phonograph. Dogs. A dog show at Hyde Park. Sheep dog on the Yorkshire Moors rounds up sheep. A man rides a horse. Flowers on trees (24:31-26:04). A field. Horses go by. A man drinks tea with a woman on the side of the road. Carriage without a horse on the side of a road. Rolls Royce Silver Cloud hood ornament (26:58) and a glass of wine being picked up. A child eats ice cream at Blackpool. A child plays in the sand on a beach. Blackpool beach. Scarborough. London. Lights at night in London, signs lit up (26:05-28:12). Driving down a country road (28:13-28:26). End credits (28:27-28:46).

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this is a focus leader this week your movies to look like this new secure soundtracks sounds like look like this so you keep this a focus leader first set your lens so that these lines are sharp and clear on all parts of the screen now set the volume control on your projector the sound level should be adjusted until my voice can be clearly understood in all sections of the room you are now ready to participate in another pan american travel adventure you you we know them so well these British or do we now look again it takes all kinds holy self has said it and it's greatly to his credit but he has her thing wareameye tempe illusion of race or Turk Oprah son or perhaps hotel in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations he remains her English man he will be hey all kinds and all is native to the british air is the scent of honeysuckle hey or roses so many britons which is v1 this this royal throne of kings this sceptred isle this earth of majesty this seat of mars this other eden dem a paradise this fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war this happy breed of men this little world this precious stone set in the silver see this blessed plot this earth this Rome an island is Britain Shakespeare called it a fortress its traditional defense against the hand of war wooden walls ships like admiral nelsons victory another defense a breed of men summed up in nine words England expects that every man will do his duty an island breathe happiest at sea had cows on the Isle of Wight is a solid week of sailing for the descendants of those who manned the wooden walls it's the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron you might even catch a glimpse of royalty as sailing if the Queen here don't know love but that's the Dukes pennant there Island people they come to kyles unfurling jibs spinnakers and the old school tie away from water they'll make a London park there see make the London sky their playground British roads always lead you to the sea in every direction from Penzance in Cornwall far to the south to Whitby in the north then clear on up to the shoals of sky and beyond to the headlands of the Hebrides those who live by the sea take their living from the sea for Brenda and Gladys may townsmen and Tripura like must have their fish and chips two bits a God please and six minute penzance his lands end but it has no pirates now just salty work and hard days to break in half with a drop of something not just tea fighter better George all right fight to the best take any road and it will take you to an English pub any road stopover keep your ears open for the music of British speech on the front page now I gonna beat argentina 21 on Saturday and then we all go for West Germany the pool this man was loving when I came back again for buying me say it was dr. Mike and I thank you late to go explain way it's mommy or no he waits show and it looks so nice Frankie wake it up and the 90 that we're gonna colombo you're mine customers and dog Michael actually get me kindly take any road to the green of a Glade in Devon to the shadow of a valley in Yorkshire of Wales take any road a hundred hundred roads to a hundred villages from North bevy to East Lynne to South Pemberton to westward ho take any road pause a bit relax by the lake called Windermere along rivers whose names you know as well as main street Thames & 7 Afton and D the avin Haven river stratford town in this small place one man planted a flower that became a garden which blossomed into the very language we speak today his name was Shakespeare hers was Anne Hathaway he walked these streets thought here wrote here he still might write oh so light of fruit will now we're out the everlasting Flint what is she that all our Swain's commend her whose beauty nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on I'll tell the world a dish he made words live forever and people to from Hamlet to Harry crown uneasy on his head his is not the only Britain nor his people the only old friends you may meet on your way there's Tom Brown schoolboy and David Copperfield lady Windermere and Becky sharp and Tom Jones Robin Hood then Little John and shrouded in the midst of time a boy who pulled a sword from a stone and became King Arthur and in your mind's ear you can hear them speak from the pages I must go down to the Seas again to the lonely sea of the sky the highwayman came riding up to the Olean door keep still yellow devil or oh gotcha throat tell ahead I'm quick pip pip sir she bears on the reef no no lights abrecan 50 sovereign for you 50 crew me and the rest for his lordship I'm late Oh bless my whiskers I'm late alison wonderland and tom and pip never really lived but britain does and swings it's team ladies and gents everything in the fair works by Steve and OH be shy ever try but you lose on the roundabout your gain on the swings brought up roll up mods and rockers and racers to no telling what you'll meet on your road missing something started a ruddy rice follow any road today and come face to face with yesterday for 300 years they've been riding their boundaries and langham on the Scottish border to see if the boundaries are still there into the it's called the common writing don't tag along with the crowd find a border of your own and see if the Heather still blooms in an island with 1800 years of history centuries are milestones here once were Romans Hadrian's legions built him this wall cleaving Britannia clear across on this side civilization the Roman Empire on the other tribal territory untamed Gregor McDonald Macpherson MacLeod McKenna McLaren Mackenzie Makai Kyle McEwen McLaughlin one rule what are you got the thermos job t boys under-12 coming for a sermon it means says who have some girl 60 remember I can have someone be nice please there's a beautiful young lady here with beautiful oh yes yes yes yes hey what's another 15 that go on there you go now this is the most interesting about highland games the object is to toss the caber so that it falls like the hands of a clock that is as close to high noon as possible now that wasn't quite on now again contestant mixes run there's his toss and a perfect toss mcmoney stout lad ah Oh Oh and the drum of the Argyll and Sutherland our names of battles balaclava Sevastopol luck now the Mon the psalm and monde Malaya thing Ghazi el alamein the Rhine this Britain little body with a fighting heart has castles strewn about like the bare bones of history hey sometimes old Oscar thank George for England not all haunted by war many still the Britons home Dan vagin has been lived in for 750 continuous years and the chieftain of clan MacLeod will welcome your visit yeah if your forefathers man hit bring together different pipes great pipes music of the MacCrimmon and as was done vagin so with Howard powers in Wales Windsor and Warwick people live here and here too when a man is tired of London he is tired of life dr. Johnson said it long ago and it is true today don't try to gobble London down in one quick guide book gulp savor it sit were dr. Johnson SAT and spoke of his London relish his then before you return to your now be a Londoner yourself trafalgar square can be yours as well as lord nelson's and Kensington Gardens Sunday afternoon or yours as much as theirs do be a Londoner learn to break the day 40 this London so familiar yet so strange a mixture of the snug and the spacious of the bright present of the gilded past their playground the stable of Buckingham Palace their coach Her Majesty the Queen's once upon a century long ago another Queen went this way to the Tower of London her name was amber lynn his was Henry the eighth in London the past is always present the trick is to catch them both off guard la me if it was you all melee afraid we'd be for it not off we wouldn't you a soldier's life is terrible hard but in London finding something to see to do to watch and wonder at is so easy just follow the parade join the sidewalk critics at an outdoor art show watch the sidewalks themselves on the Thames embankment all done by my own and ladies and gentlemen all from memory from my own and cross the London zone left bank catch a Chelsea artist off her houseboat or seen nature's own handiwork Chelsea Gardens brought to bloom by the greenest thumbs in the world if it's flowers you've come to see by a program people watching is free why vicar how nice of you to come madear your snapdragons will do this year I'd have taken a first in Rosalie's if we hadn't let the head gardener go london her very pavements are like Britain's rivers you've always known their names Baker and bond Harley and fleet oxford and wimple and Regent Street but always when you see them something new always something of yesterday not wholly lost always that turn of the corner to the unexpected Baker bombed oxford fleet no matter you've always known this street first it was couraged by the plague then it was burned to the ground and so Christopher came to the field of the fire and graced it with spire a coronal cluster of steeples tall and high overall the cross and the ball on the riding redoubtable dome of st. Paul the parade is always there to follow you never know where it leads sometimes to a guilt into then sometimes to a shiny now or if you prefer to treasure at the flea market at portobello why tonight I love it I wanted and speaking of his master's voice a really good shape dog isn't hard to train at all the intelligence is that a start with the British ER and his dog inseparable be it blue ribbons in hyde park or back to work on the Yorkshire Moors Oh shape out stupid at all I mean you take winter time they won the snow on the snows coming if you watch the shape on the wall I'll tell you for there before it's going to snow it's a continual effort because the shape just as wide as a dog that they came maneuvering around the walls and coming back to the farm again rough wool soft tweed burnished saddle leather Britain is a variety of textures fetch and whitewash you timbers and brick a meadow green mountain blue miss grey fabric who's shuttled as the endless road anyroad wherever he is the Briton will stop to take tea you can go on choose your stops according to your taste for all you know mr. pickwick may have been there before you you what makes the fabric called Britain where is it to be found down beside the sea at Brighton or the sunny beach at Blackpool along the swinging promenade at Scarborough or where all roads eventually lead London so many britons so many roads which is the right one which is real the answer is simple wherever you are is only hours away come and find your own you


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