The ‘Gordon Bennett’
Series
- Series Name
- Topical Budget
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- [1ST SUBTITLE]: "Start of the world’s most famous race from Solbosch, Belgium." Long shot of the competing balloons. Medium close shot of the base of a balloon. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "'Elsie’ (Britain), (centre) met with disaster". Medium close shot of three balloons. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Captain C Spencer in ‘Miramer’". Close shot of Spencer with woman. Competing balloons, one airborne. Base of another balloon just starting.
- Keywords
- Aviation
- Length of story (in feet)
- 72
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- 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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