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The Airship Destroyer
Also known as The Aerial Torpedo in the United Kingdom; Der Luftkrieg der Zukunft in Germany; La guerra aérea del futuro in Spain; The Battle in the Clouds in the USA
(1909) England
B&W : [?] Split-reel? / 685 feet
Directed by Walter R. Booth
Cast: (unknown)
The Charles Urban Trading Company, Limited, production; distributed by The Charles Urban Trading Company, Limited. / Produced by Charles Urban. Scenario by Walter R. Booth. / Released October 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as The Battle in the Clouds by Kleine Optical Company on 29 December 1909; in a split-reel with The Park of Caserta (1909). The film was rereleased in the United Kingdom as The Aerial Torpedo in 1915.
Drama: Science fiction.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World] Section 1: Preparation. The Aero camp. Loading supplies. Start of the airships. The inventor of the airship destroyer. His love story. The parting. The alarm. The aero fleet in full flight. The aerial torpedo and its inventor. Section 2: Attack. In the clouds. Dropping live shells from the firing deck of an airship. The chase. High angle firing from a gun on an armored motor car. Total destruction of the car. Railway wrecked by the aerial fleet. Shelling the signal box. The heroic operator meets death at his post. The fight in the air. Airship versus aeroplane. Wreck of the aeroplane. The burning of a town by the aerial fleet. Thrilling rescue of his sweetheart by the inventor. Section 3: Defense. The inventor with the assistance of his sweetheart sends his airship destroyer on its mission of vengeance. The torpedo, steered through the air by wireless telegraphy. One flash and the airship is doomed. It falls, a mass of scorching fire, into the waters of a lake.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 January 2025.
References: Card-Seductive p. 102; Gifford-British n. 02457 : Website-IMDb.
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