Hero of a Hundred Flights

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

268-2

Date Released

14 Oct 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Devonshire Hospital Buxton
2. 2Thermal Mineral Water Baths
3. 3Hero of a Hundred Flights
4. 4Khaki Sports
5. 5Opening of the Law Courts

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Captain and Flight Commander Ball, DSO, who has shot down 29 German aviators...He has received the Military Cross and a bar to the DSO." Shot of a group of people in military and civilian clothes. Close-up of Flight Commander Albert Ball, a civilian and another man in uniform.

Keywords

Military

Length of story (in feet)

63

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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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