INDUSTRY: Inauguration of world’s longest and cheapest air mail service (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Air Minister and Postmaster General inaugurate world’s longest and cheapest air mail service. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: One and a half d Air Mail to Australia ENGLAND: Southampton: Gen. view airliner ’Calypso’ G-AEUA at landing stage. Semi view Sir John Reith arrives. Gen. view crowd. Semi view Reith talks. Semi view Wood talks & hands/letter to Major Tryon. CU post bag pan up to Tryon. Semi view Tryon puts letter in bag. CU labels on mailbags. Gen. view & CU mail lowered to landing stage. Long view mail into Calypso. Gen. views (3) of airliner Calypso off & in air. . Sound Effects. Reith introduces Kingsley Wood. Kingsley Wood says that very soon these airmail services will seem the most natural thing in the world, & hands letters to Tryon. Personalities - Politicians; Aviation; Communicatio