The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" is a 1902 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 398 in its catalogues.
The dirigible Pax
Augusto Sévéro's Pax Airship, 1902
Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão was a Brazilian politician, journalist, inventor and aeronaut.
The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax"
…catalogues. The film is a recreation of a real-life catastrophe that occurred in Paris on 12 May 1902. At 5 a.m. on that day, the Brazilian inventor Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão and his mechanic, M. Georges Saché, set off in Severo's dirigible, the Pax. They intended to fly from Paris to Issy-les-Moulineaux. However, while the…
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