Torpedoing A Liner.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biplanes.

Fighter planes.

Propaganda.

Shipwrecks.

Atlantic Ocean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (53 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1916.

Summary:

"TORPEDOING A LINER A faint idea of the 'pirate huns' latest crime against civilisation, is portrayed in the torpedoing of a ship where the terrific explosion destroys everything". Biplane carrying a torpedo [?] flies over warship. There is a large explosion. Wreckage floating in the water.

Notes:

Issue number: 228-1 ; Story number within issue: 5 of 5

Note: This film does not show genuine military action. The ambiguous titles presumably mean that this is a faked incident meant to give the audience an idea of a recent German bombing [the P. & O. liner 'Geelong' and the passenger steamer 'Glengyle' were sunk by German submarines on the 2nd]. The implication seems to be that the plane has dropped a torpedo but this is not visible on the film and there is a jump cut between the plane passing and the explosion. There is a group of observers in a small boat nearby. The warship apparently exploding is American.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.