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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

4034

Title

[PARACHUTIST AT BLACKPOOL]

Producer

Leonora Bichard (nee Higson)

Date

1935

Gauge

9.5mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

1 mins 05 secs

Description

Ivor Price, a parachutist for Cobham's Flying Circus lands at Stanley Park Aerodrome, Blackpool and is driven past the spectators in an open-topped car. General views of the airfield, showing planes, hangars and camera news crews. The film ends with a group of people running out of the Harris Institute School of Art in Preston and looking up into the sky.

 

 



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