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The Airship Destroyer

19097 minUnited Kingdom
Science fictionFantasy

Synopsis

Airships attack England while an inventor prepares a defensive missile. When a bomb strikes his sweetheart's home, he must interrupt the experiment to rescue her before returning to confront the aerial threat.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
6:42
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Walter R. Booth · Public domain

DirectorsWalter R. Booth

Behind the scenes

Booth combines models and cutout animation to stage a future war. The film returned to cinemas during the First World War, when real air raids gave its earlier fantasy a new context.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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