AMY JOHNSON ON FILM
SHOWING AT CIVIC An exceptional attraction will be presented at the Civic Theatre tonight, in the first showing of a film record, with sound, of the arrival of Miss Amy Johnson in Australia. This item is said to be remarkably clear, not only in the sound of her voice, but in the vieivs of the landing and welcome. An airplane was dispatched by the rox Movietone Films Company on Miss Johnson's arrival in Australia, and met her when she was 40 miles from Darwin on her way to Brisbane. After accompanying Miss Johnson’s airplane for part of the journey, the F P X _ machine went in advance", and at Brisbane succeeded in filming and gaining: a sound record of the crashing machine.
After the pictures were taken they were conveyed hastily to Sydney by an airplane. which maintained an average speed of 110 miles an hour. ,-\fter being shipped from Australia by the Maunganui the film to be screened tonight was sent to Wellington for development, and thus will be shown within nine days of Miss Johnson’s arrival in Brisbane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 16
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184AMY JOHNSON ON FILM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 16
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