Aircraft services design
Front of ‘Airways Terminal’. Man with pipe pointing to designs; talking, he sits round a table with others – a committee of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, BOAC. Close-up of a drawing labelled ‘Aircraft Glasses for British Overseas Airways Corporation’. Committee member holding pen talks to committee. Another responds. Plans labelled ‘Service Buffet’. A woman committee member in a hat smiles. A man nods as he taps ash from his cigarette. A man in glasses, with a pencil, speaks. Drawing labelled ‘BOAC sugar bowl and milk jug’ – pencil being used as indicator.
Design of various articles necessary in departure lounge. Demonstration of result – stacking stainless steel pots – simple and interchangeable.
Stop-frame sequence of 3 BOAC glasses with engraved logos. Stop-frame sequence of 3 BOAC plates with printed logos. Stop-frame sequence of 3 BOAC glass jugs.
Departure board sign, with clock showing 8:00 as time for New York – hand slots sign in from L. A woman picks up her handbag from the shelf below a table. Woman gets up from the table, taking her bag. Air stewardess makes notes. Man in cap changes clock time to 9:35; boards shows destination Copenhagen. Man struggles up from old sofa. He rises easily from replacement chair. 4-engine aircraft on runway, propellers turning. Stewardess takes coats from two boarding women. Uniformed male flight attendant shows women to their seats. He shows two others how to work the drop-down tables. Traffic control man flashes light from window. Aircraft (G-AGRA) taxis. Bar steward pours cocktails from shaker. Another steward takes tray of cocktails, offers them to passengers. A family seated round a laid dinner table on board. Two stewards pull down an upper bunk and adjust the curtains over the lower. A stewardess hangs clothes in a wardrobe, pulls the curtain over them. Woman adjusts her hair in dressing-table mirror, as another woman enters. Stewardess tucks two women into their bunks, pulls their curtains; the woman in the top bunk turns off the light.
Post time: Jun-20-2017