News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Universal News

Issue

Issue No.

61

Date Released

9 Feb 1931

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Ancient Battle for the Ball Between "Uppies and Downies" Filmed for the First Time
• 2. US Coastguards Capture the Canadian Boat "Josephine K"
• 3. Mademoiselle Jeanne Juilla (Miss France) Europe’s Most Loveliest [Sic] Girl
• 4. University Ski-Jumping at Bear Mountain
• 5. A City of Southern Mexico Suffers Severely from Earthquake
• 6. Patterns Made in the Water by Sixty-Four German Ladies
• 7. The Great Air Disaster
• 8. Launch Lifeboat
• 9. Land Speed Record
• 10. Fighting Navy

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 10

Summary

Salvage work on the giant "Iris" flying boat which crashed in Plymouth Sound with the loss of nine lives.

Keywords

Aviation; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Devon; England; Plymouth Sound

Length of story (in feet)

97

Story extras:

Production Documents

• Commentary

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

Email

info@screenocean.com

Web

http://reuters.screenocean.com/

Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

Address

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London
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Notes

British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

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