Baby Hydroplane (1930)

Full titles read: THE BABY HYDROPLANE Introducing a real hydroglider, not to mention Tony Porter, and his 1 hp Wentworth, Cambridgeshire. M, S of car driving slowly down picturesque country lane. A small boy is seen sitting in the cockpit of very small aeroplane which is attached to the top of the car. L, S of the boy and his father on a lake with the plane filling up with fuel. An elderly man asks the father how much horse power the machine has, to which the father replies one horse. C, U of the engine starting and the tiny propeller spinning round. Intertitle reads: Tony hopes one day to be a seaplane Various shots of the small boy piloting the small novelty seaplane through the water (it never looks like it s going to pick up enough speed to take off ). FILM 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 VI