Full title reads: "America. First 'Plane-carrying Airship. Tiny 'planes hook on & take off giant Navy Dirigible - in spectacular first tests."
United States of America.
Two small aeroplanes take off from an air field.
Shot of man in uniform on board the air ship.
Aerial view of the small plane flying close below the US Navy airship. The plane slowly rises up to hook onto a 'mooring trapeze' hanging below the airship.
Airship staff look out.
Good shot of the airship with the plane below it. Quick shot of the plane dropping away from the airship.
Man on board airship operates wheel.
Shot of airship with plane close below it.
C/U plane hooking on to small metal contraption hanging below airship. Long shot of the airship - the voice over says it is the Akron and it can hold five of these biplanes inside the envelope. Shots of one of the planes falling away from the airship.
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The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Various shots of the first three planes bringing Hungarian refugee families to Britain, arriving at Blackbushe Airport, going to reception areas and boarding buses.
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The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
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WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
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