Silent Model Plane 1966

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Description

Film House.

Newspaper cutting on file.

V.S. Bill Benson showing his model plane and flies it on the end of a wire and it goes round in circles. No noise comes from this plane and a Pathe sound engineer Eddie Steadman is on hand to record the silence.

(Orig. Neg.)

Data

Cataloguer:
Agnew
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
89865
Sort Number:
UN 4163 C
Time in/Out:
01:00:39:00 / 01:02:19:00
Canister:
UN 4163 C
Film ID:
3210.02
Issue Date:
1966

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