Air School Trainee Air Hostesses Are Put Through Their Paces At The Boac Air School At Heston Footage

AIR SCHOOL Trainee air hostesses are put through their paces at the BOAC Air School at Heston.
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	Catalog #:	13508
	Clip Number:	13508-1
	Orginal Film:	NP 292
	Timecode:	01:01:53 - 01:03:37
	Location:	Heston, Middlesex.
	Year Shot:	1950 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	FOOD/RESTAURANTS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Middlesex OCCUPATIONS: Flight Attendant OCCUPATIONS: Training OCCUPATIONS: Women
	Description:	AIR SCHOOL Trainee air hostesses are put through their paces at the BOAC Air School at Heston. Heston, Middlesex. Various good shots show air stewardesses in training at the BOAC Air School. The instructors use the body of an airplane to teach the girls in the appropriate surroundings. MS Trainee air hostesses entering replica of airlinder. Trainee air hostesses look inside the airplane kitchen to see a girls learning how to arrange food nicely on plates and cut tomatoes and fruit into flowers and baskets (rather different from today's tv-dinner food on airlines). MS Inside girl opens oven door and takes out plates puts on table goes back and takes out tin and puts on table. CU Puts grapes on bowl of fruit. CU Instructress's hand turns them round. GV Instructress showhing girls how to cut fruit. CU Knife cutting. CU Girl's face. CU Piece of fruit being put on plate. CU Girls looking on. MS Instructress supervises preparation of meal. CU Girl's head. CU Food on table. CU Girl checking passengers. The women then go into the main part of the plane and are shown to their seats and looked after by other trainees. MS Being shown how to usher passengers into seats. They put blankets on the laps of passengers and one girl is shown how to hold a tray high to avoid colliding with a passing passenger in the gangway. MS Covers woman's knees with blanket walks down gangway and does the same to another passenger. MS passenger sits down woman puts on safety belt. MS Trainee walks up gangway with tray holds it aside to let 'passenger' pass opposite camera instructress stops her and shows how to hold tray while another 'passenger' goes by.