NEWS FILMS IN LONDON

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19940, 26 October 1934, Page 9

NEWS FILMS IN LONDON

ANOTHER AMAZING DEVELOPMENT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received October 25, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 25. “The Daily Telegraph” publishes sections of a news film wirelessed from Melbourne, showing C. W. A. Scott talking to Miss Jean Batten, and later falling asleep on his feet, swaying with fatigue. The Aim will be screened in London, and then shown at 1500 cinemas throughout England. The film, costing £IOOO a foot, will be preceded by a talkie film of the Lord Mayor or Melbourne welcoming the airmen. The film was made by means of a microphone at Melbourne and the oceanic telephone. POSITION FOR SCOTT JOINS STAFF OF “THE NEWSCHRONICLE" United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 25, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 25. “The News-Chronicle” announces that C. W. A. Scott has joined its staff as aviation editor. TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIANS DUTCH THANKS FOR ASSISTANCE TO ’PLANE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright AMSTERDAM, October 24. Flight-Captain Vuruly, a well-known airman, writing in “The Daily Telegraph,” pays a glowing tribute to British sportsmanship in assisting the Dutch airmen, particularly the unknown Australians who gathered in motor-cars at Albury, despite terrible weather, in the dead of night. “Thanks to you,” added the distinguished airman, “we walk the streets to-day with smiling faces. Here’s to world-comradeship and to the Australians.”