The Big Boomerang

Clip 1: Darwin Airport in the 1960s

0 min 45 sec

Taken from the documentary The Big Boomerang (1962)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

Passengers cross the tarmac to board the new Boeing 707 jet aircraft. It stops in Singapore, Bangkok, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo, Rome and London.

Curator’s notes

Note the cloud of smoke as the plane takes off.

Damien Parer, curator

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