A Dream Of Flight - Kent Screening !
March 19, 2010 Countrywide Productions , the Faversham based production company, will be screening their film A Dream of Flight at the Blue Town Heritage Centre on the 19th March 2010.

The 48 minute documentary, directed and produced by Michael Maloney , written and edited by John
Kerry , celebrates the centenary of the first powered flight by a Briton in Britain, on The Isle of Sheppey.

It was accomplished by J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, later Lord Brabazon of Tara, from the airfield of the Royal Aero Club at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey, during the weekend of 30th April - 2nd May 1909.

The exploits of Moore-Brabazon, Charles Rolls (co-founder of Rolls Royce), and many others, centred initially on the airplane factory at Leysdown, establishing Sheppey at the very heart of aviation inBritain. The presence of the Wright Brothers confirmed Sheppey’s significance, and in February 1910,Aero Magazine wrote " Sheppey is the undisputed home of the aeroplane at present, and really greatprogress is being made there, and it seems permissible to say that Shellbeach is the birthplace to anew industry". This status was confirmed by Sheppey’s selection as the site of both the 1911 GordonBennett International Air Race, and of the first naval flying school.

The film chronicles, through interviews and archive film, the development of aviation, and theextraordinary events that took place on Sheppey in the years leading up to the 1st World War.

The film is intended to put the events in Sheppey between 1909 and 1914 into a historical context,and in an entertaining way, so that school children and members of the local community will be able tounderstand the special significance of the landscape they live in, and hopefully it will remain aninspiration and a source of pride to those who live there.

The making of this film was helped and supported by the participation of numerous people and organisations including Bill Croydon C.B.E. (Sheppey Heritage Trust), Brian Riddle (Royal Aeronautical Society), Terry & Sharon Munns (Muswell Manor), Big Fish Arts, Swale Borough Council, Screen South, Checkmate Ltd, and a special thanks to the children of the Isle of Sheppey Academy.

The film trailer can be viewed on http://www.cwideprods.co.uk/html/dreamofflight.html

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