News In A Nutshell (1936)

Item title reads - News in a Nutshell. Intertitle - Heston Airport. M/S as Assistant Post Master General, Sir Walter Wormersley, hands the royal mail flag to the pilot, officially opening the new airmail service between Britain and Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Various shots of the aeroplane. M/S as Sir Walter stamps the letters himself and puts them in a sack. Various shots as the sacks are loaded into the aeroplane. M/S as it taxis. Intertitle - 'Buckingham Palace' (London) - L/S of people standing around the Victoria Memorial outside the palace. Various shots of high ranking military personnel walking through the gates watched by the crowds. M/S of King Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) driving through the gates, he salutes, the occasion is his first levee. Various shots of the men wearing a variety of uniforms leaving the palace. Note: the soundtrack to this item is missing. Intertitle - 'Off to Madeira' - Various shots of the ship “Der Deutsche Bremen“ in the docks with crowds of p