Fokker gliding at Rottingdean (1922)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Anthony Fokker (Dutch inventor and aviation pioneer) piloting a glider near Brighton Full Description: ENGLAND: East Sussex: Rottingdean: EXT SV crowd gathered beside glider. (2 shots). SV M. Fokker sitting on glider, joystick between his legs. (2 shots). GV M. Fokker sitting on glider, crowd massed behind him. M. Fokker gives signal, tow rope tautens and glider is towed past. GV glider being towed by truck along ground, large crowd following in its wake. SV crowd standing by wing of glider. LS crowd standing beside glider on top of hill, team of men start running down hill pulling the glider. LS team of men running down hill pulling glider (2 shots). SV two men on horseback ride past. LS motor car (pulls?) glider down hill - and the glider lifts off, flying in the air. GV glider flying in the air down over hill, people following. (2 shots