News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

656

Date Released

28 Dec 1933

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Overweight!
• 2. Sailing, sailing over the Bounding Main
• 3. The Triers!
• 4. The Dance of the Sea - by Veronica the Famous Speciality Dancer
• 5. Squeezing for Safety

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Retrospective look at some early flying machines.
British Pathe synopsis: "Ever since Icarus tried his hand at flying, Adam has tried (and died) to evolve the one-man-power flying machine. Here’s one idea -" Short shot of an old fashioned flying machine with wings that flap backwards and forwards. "Whether it ever flew we know not, but here is another bird machine - rather more promising looking" Dark shot of a large flying machine silhouetted against an evening sky. It looks like a strange bird. M/S of two men on a beach showing how another strange flying contraption works. Strings are pulled to move the wings. C/U of a man pulling the strings. "Now or never!" Dark shot of plane being pulled along the beach. The wings are moved but it doesn’t take off. In fact it crashes into the sand without getting airborne.

Keywords

Aircraft

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.275
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP275
National Film Archive Catalogue

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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