By Air Taxi Over The Alps (1927)

Item title reads:“ By Air Taxi Over the Alps. Mr. Lester Hamilton in his Vickers Viking Napier Amphibian - lands his passengers, Princess de Lowenstein and Duc de Nemours, at the hotel door at St. Mortiz.“ St. Moritz, Switzerland L/S across a snowy mountainous scene at St. Moritz. A biplane circles slowly and the buildings of St. Moritz come into view. The plane comes into land onto a frozen lake amid the mountains in front of a large hotel, there is a cloud of snow as the plane turns and stops. The plane is towed by people pulling on ropes. the plane is static on the snow field with the prop still going. 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