R33’s Great Flight

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

737-1

Date Released

8 Oct 1925

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Jack Hobbs MP [Sic]
2. 2America’s Lost Submarine
3. 3Woman Motorist’s 90 Miles an Hour!
4. 4R33’s Great Flight
5. 5Herring Harvest Home

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "In spite of gear-box trouble does 19-hour cruise from Pulham." The airship emerging from its hangar and in flight. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Over London". Long shot. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Her triumphal return". Airship comes into land. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Loosing water ballast". Streams of water coming from the airship as it comes down. Shots of the landing including close shots of the cabins. Airship back in its hangar. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "Major GH Scott, the Commander". Close-up.

Keywords

Aviation

Length of story (in feet)

108

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

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).

Series held

View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)