Philadelphia - USA (1939)

Full titles read: “PHILADELPHIA - USA“ L/S’s of an autogyro landing on the roof of the Philadelphia Post Office building in the United States of America. The machine delivers post from New Jersey Airport. The commentator remarks “But what a difference in time... Yesterday it took forty minutes by road... today its five minutes by air.“ L/S’s of the building taking off from the building. FILM ID:1013.2 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 content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.