To The House ’by Air’ (1919)

Title - ’Westminster, London. To the “House“ by air. General Seely arrives in a seaplane “Top Hat and all“. Westminster, London. LS seaplane landing on the River Thames and bouncing a bit across the water; away from camera. MS river. CU Lord John Seely in top hat, very upper-class, talking to other man. Pan left showing two other men - one may be the pilot; the other an older man in a nautical cap. CU Seely talking. (John Edward Bernard Seely; a British political leader; commanded a Canadian cavalry brigade in World War One than served as deputy Minister of Munitions in 1918. In 1919; which is probably the year of this story; he was President of the Air Council; which explains his aerial stunt here. Seely was later elevated to the peerage.) FILM ID:1910.4 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 Briti
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