'If at First You Don’t Succeed’

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

841-2

Date Released

10 Oct 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Walsall’s Welcome to Webster
2. 2Naval Manoeuvres
3. 3Visitors from Germany
4. 4'If at First You Don’t Succeed’
5. 5'To Those Who Fell’
6. 6Parachutes
7. *The Glasgow Cup Final Tie - Rangers V Celtic

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the London typist, conquers the Channel at her second attempt in a week and her 8th in all." She enters the water watched by a male attendant and some children sitting on the beach. Shots of her swimming. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "This plucky girl accomplished the swim in 15 hours 15 minutes, beating Mrs Corson’s time by 13 minutes". Wrapped in a rug she sits a rowing boat with an elderly fisherman at her side.

Keywords

Sport; Ships and boats; Women

Length of story (in feet)

35

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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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