Full title reads: "News from the American Continent".
Intertitle reads: "For Trans-Pacific Service - America's latest plane tested at Baltimore".
United States of America, USA.
New high speed aeroplane service inaugurated. Originally part of News in a Nutshell.
Various shots of large seaplane being towed out of large aircraft hangar. We see the plane going down a slipway. Various shots of the seaplane taking off from the sea and in flight.
Note: paperwork for 35/2 conflicts with story transferred - paperwork suggests this should be a story about famous pilots (including Sir Alan Cobham) testing new high speed plane at Portsmouth Aerodrome. Original story maybe missing or misplaced? AH 2001.
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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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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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