Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls
A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont presents his ideas for a future balloon, showing to Rolls the concept of such invention and the project with his notes, all of which the other man delightfully enjoys.
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Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls is a short film made using a sequence of frames that shows the inventor Santos Dumont explaining the operation of his airship balloon to Charles Rolls, the future founder of Rolls-Royce. The short film was filmed in London and screened on December 3, 1901 at the Palace Theater.
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- Director
- William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson
- Starring
- Alberto Santos Dumont, Charles Rolls
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