News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Pigeon Wireless
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 13 / 13
- Section Title
- News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: RAF Pigeon Carriers. DESCRIPTION: The RAF train pigeons to carry messages. SHOTLIST: Pigeons are loaded into an RAF flying boat and are taken into the air. When important messages have to be released, the pigeons are thrown from the tail of the plane and they fly home and the message removed and read at the home base.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Communications; Birds; Animals; Military
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 35819
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 33
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