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  • First Airships Crossing the English Channel (1909)
  • Short | Documentary, Short
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First Airships Crossing the English Channel (1909)
Short | Documentary, Short
The firm of Gaumont has been extremely alert and enterprising in obtaining views of the recent first crossing of the English Channel by a flying machine, and has secured a couple of reels which are unique. Latham is seen in his experiments...See moreThe firm of Gaumont has been extremely alert and enterprising in obtaining views of the recent first crossing of the English Channel by a flying machine, and has secured a couple of reels which are unique. Latham is seen in his experiments, and his start for Dover from Calais As is known, he fell into the sea, and the next views show his return to Calais in the French torpedo boat which picked him up, and then the tug bringing in the wrecked aeroplane, which is seen from different positions, with Latham dressed in the clothes loaned by a sailor. Then follows the first trials of Bleriot at Issy-Moulineaux, near Paris; his flight near Calais, and then his departure across the Channel on Sunday last. These views were taken at 4:30 A.M., and are a splendid piece of photographic art. They were on view in London on the Monday night, so that Bleriot saw them himself at the Empire, where he was an honored guest. He returned to Paris on the Wednesday at 5 o'clock and at 8:30 that same evening I witnessed a public show of the film describing his triumphant entry into that city. The reels have already been dispatched to America. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Sep 7, 1909
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Sep 7, 1909 (United States)

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