Airship Destroyer (1909) – extract | BFI National Archive

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This dramatic enemy-invasion fantasy - five years before WWI - bears all the hallmarks of Sci-Fi films to come: crazy contraptions, a fleet of flying objects, a sky battle, crumbling buildings and a city in ruins. Pioneering fantasy and 'trick' films director W.R. Booth used cut-out animation and models to create the airship menace.

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