Airborne Motor Boat Aids Rescue (1948)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. American newsreel titles read: ’AIRBORNE MOTORBOAT AIDS RESCUES’. Long Island Sound, United States of America. M/S of B-29 plane in flight carrying lifeboat. M/S of lifeboat slung beneath B-29. The plane drops boat, pan down with boat. L/S of boat with parachute attached just opening. Boat suspended from parachute and hitting water with parachute on the water behind it. M/S of four men in dinghy row across water towards lifeboat, get inside and move off in the lifeboat. 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 (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Param