The Aerial Anarchists (1911)

Anarchists build a super aircraft and bomb a railway, a fort and St. Paul's.

Date of release
1911-08-31
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
15m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama
Director
Walter R. Booth

Interesting facts

The Aerial Anarchists is a 1911 British silent science fiction film directed by Walter R. Booth. It is the third and final film in Booth's science fiction series seeking to present a picture of futuristic aerial warfare. Aerial Anarchists followed on from Aerial Torpedo and Aerial Submarine and the films constitute the first real science fiction series made in the United Kingdom. The story focuses on an attack against London by a fleet of airships from an unknown country.

Production

Airships provide the "engine of destruction" in The Aerial Anarchists. The Kineto Film Catalogue describes the film as follows:

"This thrilling and amazing film depicts with far more realism than could be conveyed by the pen of the imaginative novelist, the horrors of warfare upon society if carried on by means of the latest development of mechanics - Aviation.

The picture is a series of thrills from beginning to end, but the most extraordinary and vivid incidents are the bombardment of St. Paul's Cathedral from an Aeroplane and a Railway Accident, in which a train leaps into a chasm.

These exciting scenes are so magnificent and realistically staged that they will fill audiences with amazement and mystification."

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