News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

631-2

Date Released

1 Oct 1923

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Trapped in Flooded Mine
• 2. 'We Must Keep the Nation Steady’
• 3. America Wins the Air-Boat Derby
• 4. Monument to Earl Haig Unveiled in Glasgow

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Lieutenant Rittenhouse covers 186 miles - Schneider Cup Course- off Cowes at 177 miles an hour. "The English entrant Sea Lion II". "While taxi-ing the Blackburn-Napier dived to disaster". "But she was salved". "The Americans start. Taxi-ing to the line". "Britain starts. Sea Lion II came in third". "The Frenchmen start". "Rounding the Mark Boat". "America Wins!". "One way to congratulate the Winner!"." USA wins the Schneider International Seaplane Race off the Isle of Wight.

Keywords

Sport; Ships and boats; Aviation

Credits:

Camera

Frank Danvers Yates

Camera

Frank W. Purnell

Length of story (in feet)

159

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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