Empire Air Mail Aka Empire Airmail (1938)

Item title reads - Empire airmail to Australia and New Zealand. Location of events unknown. L/S of men sat at tables outside with a flying boat in the background. M/S of Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minister, telling Lord Tryon, Postmaster General, that he wants his letters to go to the Governor Generals of New Zealand and Australia. This is a new scheme where letters can be sent by air without extra charge. Major Tryon takes them and stamps them before putting them in a post bag, this is taken and presented to the captain of the flying boat. M/S as they go aboard. Various shots as it takes off and flies away. 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