Don’t “Bird“ The “Bird-Man“! (1932)

Full title reads: “Nice, France. Don’t ’Bird’ the ’Bird-Man’! After all - he believed in his own invention, look - listen & don’t laugh, please!!“ Nice, France. M/S of wooden glider. Monsieur Albert Sauvant being helped into his glider - described by the French accented voiceover as a crash proof plane. The glider is balanced precariously on a roadside wall high above a sheer drop. Tilt down drop - it is quite some distance. Albert is climbing into his flying machine. C/U the dare devil pilot wearing a crash helmet and sitting in the cockpit. The plane is pushed off the wall. It falls to take flight and crashes down the wall of the drop - the wings are smashed off and people at the bottom run to assist him. The voiceover says “O La La - he has, as the English say, been and gone and done it.“ He is dragged from the wreckage with (according to the voiceover) ’only bruises’. He is helped out, he looks very shaken. He waves to the camera. C/U of the wreckage of the crash proof plane.