The Aerial Anarchists

The Aerial Anarchists
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Directed byWalter R. Booth
Produced byCharles Urban
Distributed byKineto Film
Release date
  • 19 October 1911 (1911-10-19)
Running time
15 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

The Aerial Anarchists is a 1911 British silent science fiction film directed by Walter R. Booth.[1] It is the third and final film in Booth's science fiction series seeking to present a picture of futuristic aerial warfare.[2] 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.[3][4][5] The story focuses on an attack against London by a fleet of airships from an unknown country. [N 1]

  1. ^ Staveley-Wadham, Rose (26 October 2020). "The British Newspaper Archive Blog Kinematograph Weekly | The British Newspaper Archive Blog". Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  2. ^ Low 1973, p. 260.
  3. ^ Shaw, Tony (20 November 2014). Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4411-5809-3.
  4. ^ Hunter, Ian (25 July 2019). British Trash Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-485-7.
  5. ^ Slide, Anthony (2003). The Encyclopedia of British Film. Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-77301-2.
  6. ^ Joyce, Steve. "Essay: 'The Aerial Anarchists'." Silentsf.com, 26, July 2003. Retrieved: 11 June 2019.


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