The Air Taxi (1931)

Intertitle predicts that the small “park in your Park“ variety of aircraft will soon be with us in greater numbers. It suggests that we will park planes in front of our houses instead of cars in the future. M/S of a small biplane being manoeuvred along a suburban street to be parked outside a house. “Fill up your tank at the usual road station - “ Plane pulls into a petrol station and attendant pumps petrol into the tank. “But, the future speed “Cop“ will have to grow a pair of wings if he wants to catch this bird!“ M/S of plane taxiing away from the camera and taking off. Motorcyclist races after it - as if trying to stop it for speeding. Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 684. 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 historica
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