Wonderful Amy ... (1932)

Full title reads: “South Africa. Wonderful Amy ... in the ’Desert Cloud’ - reaches Cape Town in 4 days 6 hrs 52 mins, beating her husband - Jim Mollison’s record - by 10 1/2 hours!“ Cape Town, South Africa. (N.B. Music starts before titles - titles only last a few frames - spacing follows). Crowds gathered at the aerodrome in Cape Town. Amy Johnson’s small monoplane comes in to land. She has flown over 6,000 miles. Closer shots of the plane, ’The Desert Cloud’, as it taxies to a halt. Members of the crowd move across the airfield towards the plane. C/U Amy Johnson at the Club House. (Large amount of spacing as the picture runs out but the sound continues) 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 m
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