Northward Bound!

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

869-1

Date Released

19 Apr 1928

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fire Checked by Explosives!
2. 2The Hunger March
3. 3The New Craze
4. 4Northward Bound!
5. 5Without Mint Sauce

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Captain George H Wilkins, famous British arctic explorer hops off in first lap of flight across the pole." Close-up of Wilking fastening his headgear. Shot of his aeroplane and of a group of nine flyers admiring a postal emblem, with a close-up of one of them holding up the emblem marked ‘Post 11, Alaska’. Flying boat taking off and in flight.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Aviation

Length of story (in feet)

60

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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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