Safe Home! (1919)

Titles read: ’Pulham, Norfolk. SAFE HOME! The landing of the R 34 at am having made the return journey in 75 hours and 3 minutes.’ Experimental airship R 34 arrives back in England on 13 July, 1919, after test flight to America and back. R 34 in the air. Soldiers walking along holding onto cabin of airship. Intertitle reads: ’Major Pritchard descends by parachute to supervise landing.’ Crew of airship lean out window and shake hands with people gathered round the door to the cabin. CU Major Scott; Commander of the R 34. Blimps. Aviation. FILM ID:2370.1 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 (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), Britis