Empire Air Day displays at Hendon and Hanworth are attended by Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood.
BOAC Britannia
First Imperial Airways 'Silver Wing' London to Paris passenger service flight.
Passengers boarding BOAC (British Overseas Airways Company) "Constellation" plane.
Ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Sulman Al Khalifa, arrives in London and visits Foreign Office.
A colour item showing the new town of Isa in Bahrain.
Last pictures of Bismark just before sinking, great shots of sailors celebrating.
8 reels of naval footage - some newsreel items, some unedited material. 1939?
First flight of the Handley Page 'Hannibal' aeroplane - it's big!
Imperial Airways passenger seaplane on test flight from Southampton to New Zealand.
Flying boat / seaplane taking off from water.
Bill Pegg pilots Britannia airliner to Castel Idris, Libya, her first overseas destination.
Beatle-mania stretches to Australia. Ringo joins the band late after illness.
RAF air display at Hendon.
Royal Air Force air display in Egypt.
Good footage of biplanes being prepared for a bombing attack and taking to the air.
Shots of Biplane taking off and of the pilot chatting to dignitaries.
A Royal Air Force biplane has crashed in Lincolnshire.
An RAF biplane makes a forced landing in Hyde Park after flying low over Buckingham Palace.
Iraq Petroleum Company opens new oilfield in Desert near Basra. - Longer version.
Cuts from documentary 'Wealth of the World - Oil' - workings of oil company in Iran.
Britain's oil interest threatened by demand for nationalisation.
Travelogue of Britain urging us to 'travel royally in this new Elizabethan age' with BOAC.
The Duke of Gloucester attends the enthronement of Iraq's young King Feisal II.