'The Best Laid Schemes’

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

842-2

Date Released

17 Oct 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Herring Fishery
2. 2Newmarket Town Plate
3. 3Woman’s 13,000 Miles Air Adventure
4. 4Britain’s Biggest Motor Race
5. 5'The Best Laid Schemes’
6. *Charity Carnival at Warwick
7. *Southport’s New Hospital
8. *Southport’s New Hospital
9. *'Jix’ at Portsmouth

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Star turn of New Jersey fair provides a huge thrill when a blazing ‘blimp’ drops in motor car park." A parachute falling from an airship, from which flames begin to appear. It falls blazing onto a field where cars are parked (filmed from the air and the ground).

Keywords

Aviation; Photography; Accidents and disasters

Length of story (in feet)

61

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
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Phone

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Fax

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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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