This brand awareness film was made by Rolls-Royce to showcase the cutting edge technology that it utilizes in its engines and how it has evolved as a brand over the years. The film opens with a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 plane, which enabled BOAC to inaugurate the first regular jet-powered transatlantic services on 4 October 1958 (0:06). Pilot in cockpit (0:08). Plane takes off (0:12). Air traffic control (0:28). de Havilland Comet 4, which completed the first jet engine airliner service across the Atlantic Ocean (0:35). Statues of Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1:09). Rolls-Royce logo (1:27). World map with Rolls-Royce locations (1:34). Map of Britain with Rolls-Royce factories (2:05). Factory procuring parts for Rolls-Royce engines (2:25). Turbine blades installed in jet turbine. Aero engine division at Rolls-Royce (3:18). Dart Prop-Jet engine (3:33). Vickers Viscount (3:43) for British European Airways (BSA). Armstrong Whitworth Argosy (3:58). Fairchild F-27 plane (4:01). Grumman Gulfstream plane (4:03). Handley Page Dart Herald (4:06). Avro 748 (4:10). TYNE Prop-Jet engine (4:13). Vickers Vanguard (4:26). Canadair CL-44 (4:29). Short Britannic 3 (4:32). Fairey Rotodyne (4:36). Avon Turbo Jet engine (4:39). Havilland Comet 4 (4:55). Sud Aviation Caravelle (5:02). Conway By-Pass Turbo Jet engine (5:11). Boeing 707-420 (5:28). Douglas DC-8 (5:33) in Trans Canada Air Lines livery. Vickers VC10 (5:37). Airco DH.121 (5:42). Jet landing and then taking off (5:53). Military jets fly in formation (6:02). Maritime strike and reconnaissance aircraft (6:18). Supersonic fighter (6:21). Hawker Hunter RAF Treble One squadron’s aerobatic fleet (6:31). Rolls-Royce diesel engine factory (6:46). Boat’s engines roar (7:27). Construction machines (7:37). Fire truck (7:47). Tractor trailer for Bright’s Wines (7:52). Massive truck carrying large rocks (7:58). Maryville Road Train Base. Truck that transports cattle (8:10). Bus (8:30). Diesel passenger train (8:44). Factory for motor cars in Crewe, UK. (9:15). Aerodrome (9:38). Military tanks (9:56). Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars (10:25). Factory for constructing Rolls-Royce cars (10:38). Car exits the shop among Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars (11:25). Engineers and designers (11:52). People riding bicycles (12:13). Rolls-Royce engine seen in mock-up and studies of advanced aircraft including what appear to be supersonic passenger planes (12:24). Wind tunnel test of turbo-prop (12:53). Control panel (13:23). Machine records the results of the study (13:45). Rolls-Royce engines being flight tested (14:30). Avro Lancaster Royal Air Force (14:37). Airspeed Ambassador (RMA Elizabethan) (14:42). Scientists testing the Conway bypass engine inside the Boeing 707-420 (14:52). Short SC1, a fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing jet aircraft, fitted with five RB-108 engines (15:26). Nuclear Physics Laboratory (16:01). Engineers at the laboratory (16:09). Danger sign (16:40). Jet engines firing up (16:57). Rolls-Royce factory (17:06). Engine is tested in freezing conditions (17:28). British Army armored car or armored personnel carrier (18:04). Submerging the Rolls-Royce engine in water for a test (18:25). Sign saying “Experimental Dept No Entry” (18:53). Employees testing doors (18:58). Bentley cars being tested (19:08). Bentley S2 Continental driving on a race track (19:45). Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars go in to be serviced (20:09). Map of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines-Service Facilities (20:47). Air France Caravelle gets serviced (21:10). Service facilities at the Aero Engine school at Derby provide comprehensive operating and maintenance courses for flying crews and maintenance engineers (21:37). Logos for the 70 Airlines that use Rolls-Royce engines (22:03). Rolls-Royce tests gas turbines (22:33). BOAC Havilland Comet 4 takes off (23:18). Havilland Comet 4 flys (23:44). Rolls-Royce logo (24:07). Written and directed by David Cobham (best known for “Tarka the Otter”) and produced by Ronald Riley.

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