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Synopsis:Documentary on the development of the N4 Hovercraft.
Shotlist:10:00:00 Group of men moving a mysterious object to a lake side, This turns out to be a small 6 foot scale model of a new large hovercraft. Caption 'Hovercraft N4 a BP film, Technicolor'. The film briefly goes over the history of the hovercraft starting with the first cross channel crossing by Christopher Cockeral and Peter Lamb in 1951.
10:03:02 GVs Cows Isle Wight Hovercraft test centre. GVs N1 first cross channel crossing by Christopher Cockeral and Peter Lamb in 1951.
10:04:03 GVs M2 Hovercraft and then the 40 ton N3, N5 and N6 models, where they are tested in Canada and Borneo.
10:06:52 CU Plans for M4.
10:08:18 SR N4 Press Conference. Mr. Wheeler answers technical questions.
10:10:16 GVs passengers boarding N6 Swift and Sure.
10:10:54 GVs N4 being built in factory, Cowes, Isle of Wight.
10:14:58 GVs Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate before any Hover docking bay was constructed.
10:15:03 GVs Dover British Rail Hover port facilities Construction site.
10:15:30 February 1968 GVs N4 Trials.
10:18:18 End credits overlay 'a Derek Stewart production, Associate Producer Terry Trench, Director Gerard Bryant, Photography Harold Case, Editor Jeanine Bradlaugh.
ENDS.