Hero of Trans-Atlantic Flight

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

822-2

Date Released

30 May 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Hero of Trans-Atlantic Flight
2. 2'From Ypres to Bourlon Woods’
3. 3In Memory of King Charles
4. 4Neck & Neck Air Race
5. 5Kent. Soldiers’ Sons
6. *Fete & Gala
7. *Bradford and District MC
8. *Liverpool May Day Celebrations

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "London - never slow in paying tribute to a great sporting and courageous feat - welcomes Captain Charles Lindbergh at Croydon Aerodrome." Plane comes into land, with thousands of people thronging the airfield. Lindbergh addresses the crowd through a megaphone.

Keywords

Aviation

Length of story (in feet)

155

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Address

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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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