Air Affairs (1944)

Item title reads - Air affairs. M/S of U.S. navy airship in flight, aerial shot as a rubber boat is lowered followed by rescuer on rubber ring. The airman in the sea is rescued and climbs onto boat. A cable pulls them up again. L/S of Chinese Air Force planes in flight forming the initials . M/S as officer walks along on ground. M/S as the planes then form ’September the First’ in Chinese, the date of their anniversary. M/S of pilots on the ground, one looks at a knife. 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 Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews
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