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"Towed Gliding" 1931
Description
Full title reads: "Middlesex. 'Towed Gliding'. Colonel the Master of Semphill inaugurates new inexpensive and likely to be popular sport."
Middlesex.
Various shots as a glider is towed across an airfield by a car. The glider plane takes off. Various shots of the aircraft in the air....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 8270
- Sort Number:
- 31/009
- Time in/Out:
- 01:00:49:00 / 01:02:32:00
- Canister:
- 31/9
- Film ID:
- 759.02
- Issue Date:
- 29/01/1931
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"The Master of Semphill" in text and tags should read Master of Sempill.
"Mr Gordon English" in text and tags should read Gordon England.
"Mr Lowe-Wilde" is Charles "Jimmy" Lowe-Wilde.