Aviation: New ‘birdman’ makes debut and "Crack-up" Frakes crashes fiftieth plane

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

454A

Date Released

17 Feb 1938

Date submitted

14 Feb 1938

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Japanese occupy Tsingtao again
2. 2The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Singapore defences tested
3. 3The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: America’s Naval Policy
4. 4The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Australian Celebrations continued
5. 5The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Dr Schuschnigg yields to Hitler
6. 6The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Gales, Snow and "Walrus" aground
7. 7The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Leviathan in the Forth
8. 8The Front Page: Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Funeral of Prince Nicholas of Greece
9. 9Aviation: New ‘birdman’ makes debut and "Crack-up" Frakes crashes fiftieth plane
10. 10Personality Column: Conducted by Leslie Mitchell: Ishbel MacDonald and her fiancé
11. 11Personality Column: Conducted by Leslie Mitchell: Gracie Fields and her investiture
12. 12Sports Page: Ice Hockey in Prague
13. 13Sports Page: Sail Skating
14. 14Sports Page: Ice Yachting in Wisconsin
15. 15Sports Page: Silver Skates Contest

Story

Story No. within this Issue

9 / 15

Section Title

Aviation

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Plane Crashing. SHOTLIST: Lucky Frakes is presented with a lucky mascot, and takes off in his plane to crash into a wooden house erected for the purpose. He is picked up sustaining only slight injuries. In the same meet which takes place at Tampa a birdman jumps from a plane and has a rather rough landing when his parachute gets caught in a gust of wind.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Aviation

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

32578

Credits:

Commentator

Ivan Scott

Length of story (in feet)

57

Story extras:

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