Mail Planes Aka Air Mail Five Tons A Day (1925)

Damaged title card reads, “Pathe News - More than five tons of mail and express are handled daily“. Aircraft are loaded with mail from vans. Aircraft seen taking off over camera. Air-to-air of aircraft in flight over city, unloading mail. Also shots of night activity loading mail and preparing aircraft and shots of aircraft in snow. Shots spliced on from other stories: Capitola California antiaircraft gunners perform target practice in the air and Navy pilots from Honolulu fly in formation. This item is quite scratched. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumon