News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

741-1

Date Released

5 Nov 1925

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Ypres Day at Cenotaph
• 2. Football in a Smoke Screen
• 3. Closing a Chapter of History
• 4. Schneider Cup
• 5. Great Welsh Dam Disaster

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Captain Biard, Britain’s hope, whose mystery ‘plane crashed." Close-up of Biard. Wreckage of his plane. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "17 ‘planes smashed by gale on eve of race". Wreckage of the planes in the water. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "JH Doolittle - does a lot! Wins for America at 233 miles an hour!". Close-up of Doolittle in helmet and goggles. Seaplane wheeled out of hangar, taking off and in flight. Close-up of Doolittle without flying kit.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Aviation; Competitions; Accidents and disasters

Length of story (in feet)

69

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
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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