Wings For Pauline Reel 1 (1949)

c. 1949 Documentary about learning to fly gliders. A Times Film Production. Commentator - Philip Slessor (by arrangement with the BBC), Editor - Douglas A. Clarke. Music Adviser - Reginald Jordan. Directed by Frank Chilton. Photographed by Phil Dennis. Camera Operator - Peter Kelly. Reel 1. L/S of landscape, camera pans. It is the vale of Bradwell (?) in Derbyshire. Bradwell Edge is shown - home of one of Britain’s oldest and largest gliding clubs. L/S of a glider flying over picturesque countryside. Aerial shot of a farm. Glider taking off. Club members stand by the hangar and watch one of the planes in flights. M/S of some of the club members looking into the sky - some with binoculars. C/U of a couple looking into the sky. They are Peter and Pauline who are about to learn how to fly. M/S of their instructor with a glider behind him in the distance. Peter and Pauline walk over to a “slider“ with the instructor. The fabric is cut out of the wings so that it cannot fly - it is a tra