(Reel 1) Trainees are shown various types of camera, the L-Type, the C-Type, and a recently-introduced camera which uses film instead of plates. They are taught elementary chemistry for developing and...
The film starts coherently, but degenerates progressively into pullbacks and misplaced scenes until the later reels are not always comprehensible. There is virtually no actuality material, all the poi...
The aircraft takes off from the flight deck, after which deck officers check the wind's speed relative to the ship. Most of the film shows the pilot's point of view. He overflies the carrier once, loo...
(Reel 1) The troopship SS Barpeta brings a fresh contingent for the squadron into Karachi harbour. The men travel by train on to Ambala, where they get their first real view of India, including a hook...
Some of the squadron's Airco DH9 aircraft are wheeled out of their hangars at Hawkinge aerodrome near Lympne in Kent. A mail truck arrives with sacks of mail for Cologne, and these are piled into the ...
(Reel 1) The film compares the old ways of the desert with modern technology by starting with an Arab camel train coming to rest at an oasis. At dawn the riders wake with prayers and resume their jour...
The team lines up for a group photograph. In turn, they are Squadron Leader A H Orlebar (captain), Flight Lieutenant F W Long, Flight Lieutenant J N Boothman, Flight Lieutenant G N Stainforth, Lieuten...
Newsreel item on Supermarine Southampton flying boats of 201 Squadron taking off for a goodwill tour of the Baltic from Calshot, September 1930.