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Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C. S. Rolls

19011 minBrazilUnited Kingdom
Documentary

Synopsis

Alberto Santos-Dumont gestures while speaking with Charles Rolls during a visit to London. The silent sequence preserves a meeting between the aviation pioneer and the future co-founder of Rolls-Royce.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:27
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · William Kennedy Dickson · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsWilliam Kennedy Dickson

Behind the scenes

The moving image was reconstructed from photographic cards in a Mutoscope held by the Museu Paulista in São Paulo. Exhibition records identified the original 1901 production.

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