Summary

MacRobertson Trophy Air Race

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # 4189
Clip SR002036_02_01.mov
Date 10/24/1934
Title MacRobertson Trophy Air Race
Description Title card: "First pictures Australian air race!" / "Exclusive scenes rushed from Melbourne! Records smashed by Englishmen, carrying films of world's greatest sky derby won by Scott and Black" / O. Cathcart Jones, K. F. Waller in airplane on ground on England airfield / Grosvenor House (G-ACSS) airplane, flown by British team of Scott and Black / Jones, Waller take Paramount film canisters / Allahabad, India: airplane taxiing / pilots Gerritt Johannes Geijsendorffer, Dirk Lucas Asjes with propeller / Indian people at plane / Asjes and Geysendorfer / VS airplane in fire on ground; wreckage the next day / Melbourne: airplane with Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott and Captain T. Campbell Black in Melbourne / VS smiling Scott in front, Black in back, surrounded by sizable crowd / race sponsor Macpherson Robertson reading from paper, Black in the middle and Scott on right / Captain K. D. Parmentier, J. J. Moll (Dutch team) land on airfield / Parmentier and Mall with Robertson / SOT Parmentier and Mall / note: month/day not known
Personality O Cathcart Jones, K F Waller, Gerritt Johannes Geijsendorffer, Dirk Lucas Asjes, C W A Scott, Tom Black, K D Parmentier, J J Moll, Macpherson Robertson
Country Australia
City Melbourne

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