Welcome - M. Bleriot (1929)

Item title missing, paperwork reads - Welcome M. Bleriot! Britain honours famous airman who inaugurated “the air age“ by first flying the Channel in 22 h.p. primitive monoplane 20 years ago. Location unclear, it may be Dover or London. Intertitle - `Just look back on the Bleriot machine of those days’. M/S Bleriot’s original plane being pushed out from tented hangar. (picture is blank from 01:46:10 - 01:46:19). L/S as the camera pans across huge crowds gathered near the airfield. M/S as Louis Bleriot walks up to his seat with the mayor and greets a lady. C/U of him sat down writing in a book, he stops and picks up his straw boater. L/S of a large aeroplane taxiing, it stops. M/S as Bleriot climbs down the wing after having spoken to the pilot. 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