News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

353

Date Released

9 Mar 1936

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Germany
• 2. Reports: Rome Rejoices
• 3. Reports: New Zepp’s Trials
• 4. Reports: Vast Dock Fire
• 5. Queen Mary
• 6. Reports: Snow Tragedies
• 7. Rockets
• 8. Reports: Viceroy’s Cup Air Race
• 9. Reports: Floods in Egypt
• 11. Sports: For Men of Oxford and Cambridge
• *Swank

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 11

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Newest US Postal Experiment. DESCRIPTION: It’s worth keeping an eye on newest US Postal Experiment. SHOTLIST: Crowd stand around. Man places mail in small rocket plane and places eye shield over head. He touches the rocket gear and the small plane is released. Into the air off the runway. The plane crashed.

Keywords

Aviation; Science and technology; Postal services

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

4313

Credits:

Commentator

Brian B. Saveall

Length of story (in feet)

51

Story extras:

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