RESCUES FROM VESTRIS
PARAMOUNT’S GRAPHIC FILM TO BE SCREENED HERE SHORTLY A news gazette, showing graphically the rescue of the survivors from the ill-fated Vestris, which recently foundered in the Atlantic, arrived in New Zealand this week, and will be released by Paramount Pictures in Auckland at an early date. Behind the securing of this remarkable picture lies a story of great organisation of the news reel department of the Paramount Company. Within a few minutes of the lirst S.O.S. flash from the Vestris being picked up in New York, airplanes with Paramount cameramen were dispatched to the ports from which rescue ships were to leave. All vessels steaming to the scene of the disaster were radioed in an effort to locate motion-picture cameras. The only camera in the vicinity was on board the s.s. Berlin, and owned by a German banker. He was commissioned to take all possible films. The Paramount film includes the actual scenes of rescue, survivors clinging to the wreckage and the locating of the lifeboats during the 45 m.p.h. gale which was raging—also close-ups of the Vestris herself in port, prior to sailing on her last voyage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 14
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192RESCUES FROM VESTRIS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 14
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