Footage Farm: Aviation, automobiles

Archival Film Footage of Early Aviation (Pre 1930)

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W Si 15.15.57
15.20.51 [Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Headline re Wright Flight. Horse pulling Wright Brothers plane out. Hauling up the launching weight.Dropping weight. People at early airshow. Hillside takeoff of Wright brothers glider. Wilbur Wright flies over. Wing walking with good CU. Bomb test on USS Alabama, 9/21. Loading bomb on plane; dropping; seen from air. Phosphorus bomb explosion; 2,000 lb bombs. Hulk of ship. Biplane off carrier. Dropping bomb & sinking Alabama. Biplane out of hanger. MCU of Wright Brother. Twin motor bi-plane started & flown. POV on plane. Starting pusher prop. Woman out of plane, puts on coat. POV in biplane w/ guns. First airmail. POV in early blimp. Bombing run over ship. Amphibious sea planes Catalinas flying boats. POV looking back take off of carrier. Gag of pedal plane & ramp. Early ultra-light. inc.
[Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc] Early Flight

220337 220337 220337 1976 Colour Sd 01.36.41
01.41.36 Wright Patterson Air Force Base Ohio - Museum
Pre-Titles tease
01.37.37 Wright Patterson Air Force Base Ohio. Aircraft graveyard - rusting planes. Restoration shops. Museum - Old planes run by bicycle chains - early flight aircraft - mono and bi-planes. WWII aircraft - nose art " Strawberry Bitch " - arty shots show detail of planes. Modern planes, one with NASA insignia.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1903 - 1909 b/w Si 05.17.40
05.20.30 Early Flight - Wright Brothers
Wilbur ? Wright attaching wheel to aircraft. Still of plane flown by Orville Wright in 1903.
05.18.24 Wilbur Wright in 1908 makes first flight in Europe flying under French Government subsidy.CS two men pulling props through on the Wright aircraft in France. Frenchmen stand watching as Wilbur Wright makes adjustments on the aircraft engines--launching tower to right of the scene. Wright plane being launched by catapult in France.
05.18.32 stands showing VIP's male and female, and military attending the air show. CS Wright plane passing overhead.
05.18.48 The same year Orville Wright won the 30,000 US dollar army prize at Fort Myers Va. for sustained flight with a passenger. CS Orville Wright and Lt. Lahn sitting in control section of the plane. Wright aircraft being launched by catapult launching track at Ft. Myers, headquarter building in bg. Wright plane in flight at Fort Myers, spectators watching the meet. CS army personnel moving the Wright flyer across open terrain.
05.19.40 MS removing hangar doors from storage building. MS army personnel grouped around the Wright aircraft. CS of VIP's at Fort Myers standing near the hangar building; President Taft amoung the spectators. MS Pres. Taft walking into group of spectators.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1924 b/w Si 05.35.21
05.51.47 Early Flight - Pre World War One Air Force Outtakes
Orville Wright & Lieut Foulois prepare to make first cross country flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria Va. they climb into seat of plane. MS Men aboard plane.
1909 Wilbur Wrights aircraft demonstrated in 1909 to King of Italy.Plane, which is moving down a rail, it takes off, bounces. CU Italian officials watch as it flies past group Plane leaves rail, is airborne over flat field as first motion pictures are taken from air plane (various air-to gound views taken from aircraft while in flight). 05.37.29 CU Tail section of Heni Farman's flying machine; Pan, to right, three men around plane (scene taken in 1908).
05.37.42 Farman pours gasoline into tank fron small can. Plane taxis for take-off. Plane in flight over France during demonstration in 1908.
05.38.30 Louis Bleriot, French aviator, first man to successfully fly English channel, seated in one of his planes, preparing to put it in flight; man, FG, spins propeller. Man watches plane take off - out of frame.
05.39. 15 Glen Curtiss seated at plane controls in 1909 as he prepares to give demonstration at Rheims, France. Man spins propeller to start plane - takes off; men run past camers. Biplane in flight close to ground (done during early days for safety).
05.40.13 Scene taken in 1915 at Panama-Pacific Exposition; biplane stunting over heads of large crowd.
CU Lincoln Beachey , first stunt man (killed while "looping-the-loop" at exposition); he is shown adjusting his helmet.
AtoA MS Stunt man standing on right wing of biplane, in flight; camera plane moves close. CU Stunt man hangs from loop under right wing of biplane in flight approximately 1000 feet off ground.Jersey Ringel painted on plane.
More examples of early aircraft.
05.42.00 Mitchell Tests of aircraft bombing on battleships MLS Ex-German cruiser Ostfriesland taking direct bomb hit from USAAF bomber; water, smoke thrown high. Four bombers in flight over USS Alabama. Ship enveloped in smoke from direct bomb hit - phosphorus? AtoA MLS Plane lays smoke curtain;
05.44.11 AtoG MS Bomb hit made on after part of USS New Jersey (1920's); water shot high, enveloping ship - keel as ship flips completely over
05.45.24 MS USS Virginia takes direct bomb hit on after part; hit tumbles mainmast, ship enveloped in black smcke.Ship sinking; portion of bow as it plunges below surface
MLS Wilbur Wright during demonstration at LeMans, France, August 1908, MCU French dignitaries in stands, watch - various Wright aircraft.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1903 - 1929 b/w Si 06.02.25
06.14.32 History of Aviation - Early flight
On October 19th, 1929 The Dox carried 169 Passengers on a single flight
MS of German aircraft DOX taxiing upon water, plane is twelve-propeller driven on six engine nacelles (pull and pusher type props).Interior of aircraft showing news cameraman taking pictures of people on maiden flight. The take off and landing.
06.03.18 Nov 18th 1908 , Wilbur Wiight at Le Mans, France, made a World altitude record by rising 360 ft. Note the balloons to determine altitude. Head on view of Wright aircraft in flight, three balloons in bg used to determine altitude of the aircraft.
Title - Little did he dream that man would reach an altitude of 8 miles in heavier than air aircraft where the temperature is always around 76 degrees below zero. AV of high snow-capped mountain peak, camera aircraft flies directly over same. AV high snow-covered mountains with pine trees.
06.04.10 The first air corp was born in Feb 1908 when the US army contracted for a Wright airplane to stay in the air for one hour and fly at speed of 40 mph. Lt. Foulois and Lt. Selfridge were detailed to aviation duty, MS soldiers moving the Wright aircraft out of hangar building.
06.04.44 Lt Lahm and orville Wright set the Worlds endurance record for one hour 12 minutes and forty seconds. MS Lt. Lahm sitting at controls, Orville Wright making final preparation prior to take off. Orville Wright getting into control section of plane. Wright Flyer taking off from Fort Myer; headquarters building in bg. Wright plane in flight at Fort Myer.
06.05.28 Lt Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight from Fort Myer to Alexander VA. and return. CS Orville Wright, Lt. Foulois and another worker standing near the control section of the aircraft. Foulois gets into cockpit, Wright makes adjustment upon aircraft motor. MS starting ot the engine. Orville Wright and Lt. Foulois before take off sitting in the plane.
06.06.05 Among the most successful competitors of the Wrights was Henry Farman. Shots Farmans machine as it looked in 1908. Farman filled his tank with a few gallons from a can. He made a flight at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1908
06.06.43 Louis Bleriot, distinguished French aviator and the first man to successfully fly the Channel. Shots Bleriot piloting one of his planes.
06.07.11 Wrights learn to fly by gliding. Shots motorless glider in Germany - launching glider from hillside
In 1903, MS still photo--Wright brothers aircraft in flight, pilot in prone position while piloting same.
France, August 19O8 launching of the Wright Brothers aircraft in France showing launching tower, weight dropping, aircraft taking off.Spectators in stands watching the air show. CU headlines of New York paper proclaiming Wrights flight in France. Wilbur Wright , Adjusting aircraft wheel CS placing the wheel beneath the wing and attaching same by means of strap. LS horse and two-wheel cart to which rope is attached pulling the Wright aircraft across the airfield in France. Continued

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1903 - 1929 b/w Si 06.02.25
06.14.32 History of Aviation - Early flight - Continued
06.09.09 Cranking the 24 hp motor of the Wright Brothers airplane. MS two men pulling props through on the Wright aircraft, Wilbur Wright in bg making adjustments upon aircraft motor.
Early Wright machines started from a rail and landed on a skid. After 1904 the were catapaulted by means of a falling wieght. MS men checking the launching rail. Moving the Wright aircraft into position on the launching rail. Men pulling the weight up into the top of the launching tower.
The Wright demonstration in France in 1908 Spectators attending the demonstration, male and female, military and civilian.
Oct 3td 1908 Wilbur Wright goes up with French journalist remaining aloft for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. The Worlds endurance record with a passenger. CS headlines proclaiming event. CS Wilbur Wright and the French journalist getting into the aircraft.Launching and in flight Pressmen standing on the airfield, ducking as aircraft flies overhead. Head on view, Wright aircraft passing overhead.
06.11.29 Louis Bleriot piloting one of his planes. CS Bleriot sitting at controls of his aircraft, man pulls props through on same. Bleriot aircraft starting for take off, flies just a few feet off ground.
06.11.41 While the Wrights were daily astonishing the world, another flier came to the fore - Glenn H. Curtiss, another american pioneer of aviation at Rheims, France 1909 CS of Glenn Curtiss sitting at controls of his first aircraft. Curtiss aircraft starting for take off--view obstructed by men in fg.
06.12.11 In the early days of aviation pilots flew close to the ground for safety purposes.
LS of the Wright aircraft in flight, low level.
06.12.28 Here is the famous Lincoln Beachey, the first man to stunt an airplane, he was killed while looping the loop at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1951. MS head on view of Lincoln Beachey stunting a Curtiss model aircraft, flying same down low over road--crowd along fence watching same. CU of Lincoln Beachey adjusting crash helmet.
06.13.00 Dare devil stunting - AV stuntman standing on wing of aircraft, 'Jersey Ringling" written on side of same. Stuntman switching planes in flight, grabbing hold of bar attachment on bottom of wing, hanging from same after switching plane by leg and hand only--releases hand hold and swings by legs.
06.13.16 Early model type aircraft showing rotor attachment between each wing. Plane does not successfully take off.
Orville Wright, the first man to fly a heavier than air machine, survived his brother and lived to see his dream become reality. CU of Orville Wright standing on boat deck, water in bg.
Wilbur Wright, Born 1867 Died 1912. CS of Wilbur Wright and two Frenchmen standing on airfield.
What the Wrights left to posterity - Head on view, formation of ten early model twin-engine bombers.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1902 - 1929 b/w Si 06.14.50
06.19.34 Highlights of 32 Years of Flight - Early flight
1902 The glider in which the Wright Brothers used the wing warping method for balance
1903 The first flight was made by Orville Wright - still of plane
1908 Wilbur Wright in France - newspaper headlines - Wright adjusting wheel of plane - LS horse and two-wheel cart to which rope is attached pulling the Wright aircraft across the airfield in France. Cranking the 24 hp motor of the Wright Brothers airplane. MS two men pulling props through on the Wright aircraft, Wilbur Wright in bg making adjustments upon aircraft motor.
Early Wright machines started from a rail and landed on a skid. After 1904 the were catapaulted by means of a falling wieght. MS men checking the launching rail. Moving the Wright aircraft into position on the launching rail. Men pulling the weight up into the top of the launching tower.
The Wright demonstration in France in 1908 Spectators attending the demonstration, male and female, military and civilian.
06.17.26 Hauling up the weight that catapaulted the plane from the rail. Start of the flight Aug. 8th 1908, flight lasted 1 min 46 secs.
06.18.17 Oct 3td 1908 Wilbur Wright goes up with French journalist remaining aloft for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. The Worlds endurance record with a passenger. CS headlines proclaiming event. CS Wilbur Wright and the French journalist getting into the aircraft.Launching and in flight Pressmen standing on the airfield, ducking as aircraft flies overhead. Head on view, Wright aircraft passing overhead.
06.19.18 On October 19th, 1929 The Dox carried 169 Passengers on a single flight
MS of German aircraft DOX taxiing upon water, plane is twelve-propeller driven on six engine nacelles (pull and pusher type props).Interior of aircraft showing news cameraman taking pictures of people on maiden flight. See previous item for better shots DOX

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1928 b/w Si 06.19.40
06.32.09 Early Flight - Wright Brothers Various news clippings showing honours bestowed on the Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft.
A Feature of the two day event was the presentation to the Wright Brothers of medals from the Governor, the State and the City. Governor Harmon presenting the state medal.
Still photo of Governor Harmon standing at base of large grandstand with spectators.
06.20.11 Dedication of Wright Field at Dayton. Coverage of the flag raising ceremonies showing Mr. Wright pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the mast. Event attended by various military and civil leaders. Firing cannon salute at the ceremony.
06.20.56 L to R Orville Wright, Gen. Gilmore and Col. Deeds,chairman of the dedication ceremonies, standing on the platform. Following this the delegates went to Washington to attend a conference, some were transported in Col. Deeds private plane the King Bird.Various members of the party, enroute to conference at Washington, D.C., getting into Col. Deeds' aircraft. "The King Bird" taxiing resembles the Fort Stoudt C-3 aircraft. Delegates standing in front of large building in Washington. Orville Wright in whose honor conference is held with delegates
06.22.30 Dedication of memorial to Wright Brothers, Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina . LS looking down from Kill Devil Hill showing throngs of spectators walking up along the hill.
Governor Maclean greets Orville Wright. Orville Wright unveiling the memorial plaque. Crowd standing around, military and civilian one person opens a coop of birds that fly towards camera. Orville Wright standing next to memorial plaque. Inscription on plaque.
06.23.22 35th Anniversary of the first flight Dec. 17th 1938 in the NCR auditorium under the auspices of the Aviation Committee of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. Int. taken from stage looking at auditorium, all seats occupied. CS of Col. Deeds, Henry Ford, Orville Wright and Charles F. Kettering sitting on stage. CS still photograph of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
06.24.10 The pioneer flights of the Wright plane. Flying demonstration given by Wilbur Wight at Le Mans 20 years ago. Horse pulling the Wright brothers' plane out across open field. Spectators stand showing various high officials in the French government. CS mechanics preparing the plane for launching. Catapault device being erected upon the field. Wright brothers aircraft being placed upon the launching rail. CS of the stand showing the spectators. Men pulling the heavy weight catapault device up for dropping - dropping of weight and launch 06.26.41 Coolidge opens Great World air conference in Washington celebrating 25th anniversary of mans conquest of the air. Crowd of delegates in front of building. President Coolidge and his secretary standing on steps of building. Notable group: Asst. Secretary of War, Davison; Col. Lindorf; H.P. Guggenheim; Asst. Secretary of Navy, Warner. CU of Clarence Chamberlin. Delegates from Venezuela . CU of Lady Heath, noted English aviatrix. Orville Wright, honored guest at conference, standing amidst group of delegates. 38) CU of Whiting, Sec. of Commerce, and Orville Wright. continued

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1928 b/w Si 06.19.40
06.32.09 Early Flight - Wright Brothers Various news clippings showing honours bestowed on the Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft.
06.27.11 At Kitty Hawk, N.C. The Wright Bothers made their first flight 25 years ago
CS coverage of Wright brothers' plane being assembled by mechanics and prepared for flight. Wright sitting in cockpit with another person. Launching by means of catapault. Camera pans across with the Wright aircraft (Scenes in France).
06.28.02 First use of airplanes in National Defence. Formation of early model aircraft, approximately 15, Bi-wing planes. Unable to identify. IIn the Navy - Several shots of the early model aircraft taking off from aircraft carrier - bi-planes. Aerial shot showing the aircraft carrier underway. Early models taking off.
06.28.21 Lindbergh flight from New York to Paris CS of Colonel Lindbergh, none in flight.
06.28.32 High Angle shot looking down at civilian aircraft, early model transport planes, showing passengers walking up ramp into aircraft (Imperial airways Condor, C-30 aircraft). MLS mail trucks in center of airfield. Aircraft parked in circle around the mail trucks. Several shots of unloading the mail into various types of early model aircraft. On side of truck is "Air Mail Service". Fairchild C-8 type aircraft. Name on side of airplane is Nat. US Mail Express. Shows aircraft stationary and then taxiing. C-8 approach for takeoff. Takes off directly over top of cameraman. ADS early model air mail aircraft in flight over large city.
06.29.06 Orville Wright, the "man who started it all". MS Orville Wright standing on steps of building with three small boys standing in front of him holding model aircraft.
06.29.34 title - 25TH Air birthday, Dayton, Ohio. CS of Orville Wright standing on steps of building playing with model aircraft with his three nephews. CS of one of the nephews holding medal which is enclosed in small case. Title - World Pays Tribute to Wright Bros. Dayton Ohio, Airmen join in international memorial on 25th birthday of first flight. MS looking at line of early model aircraft on exhibit. CS camera pans across from tail to nose of model of first Wright plane. Two men sitting at controls of the aircraft.
06.30.35 Title Hail Wrights as aviation forges on - Wright brothers' home in Dayton, Ohio - Orville Wright flanked by Army, Navy and civilian representatives. Memorial ceremony in cemetery in honor of Wilbur Wright showing various dignitaries walking up to the tombstone.Several street scenes of early Dayton showing also Wrights' home and bicycle shop. CS model of the Wright brothers first aircraft on small stand. CS of engine of the first Wright aircraft.
06.31.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. (PARAM0UNT NEWS). CS of G-2 autogyro stationary. CU of pilot sitting at cockpit of the autogyro. Several pan shots of autogyro aircraft demonstration showing takeoff, flight and landing. Good

LN 501-134 LN 501-134 LN 501-134 1910's & 1920's b/w Sd 06.22.58
06.29.44 [Early Aviation / Flight ]
Wright Brothers & various European aviators. Variety of amphibious take-offs & landings. CU's of various aviators. Men in arctic coats. Good Lindbergh landing in US--probably at Teeterboro. Lindbergh in cockpit & take-off into fog. In air. Night at Paris arrival. Various balcony, ticker tape & harbor shots. Various shots of various early planes. Box like, curved wings. (French narration) 3 men in plane with 30 on tail. Woman aviator.

LN 501-178 LN 501-178 LN 501-178 1909 B/W Si 17.00.06
17.08.19 Wilbur Wright's Flight Before the King Victor Emmanuel of Italy
Film contains first motion pictures scenes taken from an airplane.
Group of military and civilians walking away from hanger building, Wright flyer in doorway of same - military leaders precede the King and family and members of the cabinet.
17.00.30 The removal of original Wright aircraft from hangar building in Italy; Italian solider assists in operation. King and military and civilian leaders inspecting aircraft.Italian soliders moving plane about to starting position, men pull props , Wilbur Wright makes adjustment on aircraft engine.
Wilbur Wright and Italian Army officers sitting at controls of the Wright aircraft. RV of the men. Aircraft takes off from launching rail. Plane circling over small hill in area and coming in low across open field directly over camera. Spectators watching aircraft. MS of King and party. Wright aircraft in flight--single balloon, circular shaped, tied at anchor by rope-- spectators on ground.
Head on view as the Wright flyer comes in directly towards camera showing Wilbur Wright and person in civilian dress in the aircraft. Spectators watching aircraft in flight, members of party taking pictures .
Wright aircraft stationary, Wilbur Wright standing beside the aircraft engines. Various military and civilian spectators standing near the aircraft. Wilbur Wright posing for a picture.
17.04.35 First motion pictures scenes taken from an airplane.
Starting from moment of launching from the launching rail, flight over open field and farm land, flight toward large walled-in ruins (Rome, Italy).

LN 501-178 LN 501-178 LN 501-178 1911 B/W SD 17.44.29
17.52.02 Early Flight - Some Dates in the History of Aviation
Early aviation development in France prior to WWI showing record flights made by Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss and French aviators Bleriot, Farman, Voisin and Santos-Dumont.
Symbol which demonstrated mans desire for flight. CU painting of Leonardo de Vinci. CU drawing of Leonardo da Vlnci's flying machine. Several CU views of drawings of the attempts of man to fly from Leonardo da Vinci's time up until 1920.
17.45.51 CU head and shoulders of Clement Ader. He is the man who first demonstrated the possibility of mechanical flights.CU of drawing of his plane. Still photo of the first powered Wright Brother's plane. Still photo of one of Ader's planes. CU of head and shoulders of Louis Bleriot. - Gabriel Voisin - Robert Esnault-Pelterie.- CU of two French designers--unidentified. Stills of Robert Esnault-Peltierie making a test by mounting a glider atop a truck.
17.47.16 Several views of Gabriel Voisin towing a glider with boats on the Seine river. He stayed airborne for several seconds.
17.47.56 Alberto Santos-Dumont. MS the plane in which he made several flights (14 Bis). He made the first airplane flight in Europe Sept 1906. Plane made by Gabriel Voisin "La Bagatelle" which was flown by his brother Charles Voisin. CU Henri Farman seated in place. Sequences depicting the first attempt to fly the English Channel. Three competitors were Count Lambert in a Wright Plane at Wissant, Hubert Lathan in "Antoinette IV at Sangatte, and Louis Bleriot (winner) flying a monoplane of his own design from Los Baraques to Dover.
Shot of Bleriot's plane. - observers - the English Channel. Wreckage being salvaged by French boat. Wreckage being pulled down streets. CU Louis Bleriot walking on crutches. Bleriot standing in cockpit of plane prior to attempting to fly the English Channel at Les Baraques. Takeoff--PS over to the R showing observers . English people examining plane after landing. Ship on which Bleriot returned to France. Street scenes of his reception in Paris.

220371 220371 220371 1900's - 1970's? COL SD 23.04.52
23.06.22 [Air Force Now - Pioneers of Flight]
Wright Brothers
Career shots Wright Brothers: man-carrying kite with propellers. First flight? Modern military plane in flight.
early aviation - inventions

220422 220422 220422 1901 - 1981 COL SD 16:38:50 - 16:54:07 Air Force Now - Tomorrow's Air Force
re aviation development, design & testing
Designer's sketch of plane.
1901: Wright Borthers flight. 1920s Various early planes. 1941 Pearl Harbour and various WWII planes. Japanese planes. X-15. Dropping bomb.
Space flight. Various aircraft models. F-16.
Drawn models of future aircrafts & titles.
16:41:52 HIMAT: Highly Maneuvrable Aircraft Technology shown: flown by remote control. Officer describes innovations; Digital control systems. Talks re stealth technology.
Comparing WWI biplane cockpit, WWII P-51 Mustang cockpit control and 1980s cockpit with hundreds of controls. Tomorrow's computerised controls; computerised map - early CGI. Infra-red image. Computer graphics. Future helmet visor. CGI air battle. Kids playing video games; Space Invaders. Flight simulator with Computer graphics. Mock air battle. Montage rocket launch., plane firing, dropping bomb, control room , computer graphics, video games, starry sky, various weapons tested - 1980s vision of future and technology.
Spae rocket launch. Shuttle in space. Astronauts inside spacecraft - zero gravity. `Animation satellites and space station of the future. Sunset with planes.

180878 220494 220494 / 1916 b/w Si 22.07.00
22.13.10 French titles
Troops on the front - mud - searchlights Night scenes of surrenders
Troops off troop ship. People gather around a burning German plane.
22.08.51 The Victory of Verdun15/11/1916 World War One
The people who took part are thanked by the Republic. preparations for the attack. Donkey's carry suplies.
Artillery en route for the front.Troops cross a valley . Troops marching down road. Soldier is trapped in the mud. The troops wait for the battle to begin. German artillery smoke. Top shot Germans cross the valley. Artillery . Burning town. Odd intercut scenes of battle.

180880 tape 2 220499 220499 / 1912 b/w Si 03.34.41
03.40.15 Weissen burg - Alsace - Governor General Dalwitz visits a folk festival - national costumes
Berlin - Bus nearly falls into spree from the embankment
Smolensk - Opening of monument to the veterans of 2nd Sophisky regiment
Tsarskoye Selo - Parade for visiting Saxon King
Jeuvisy France - Famous aviators competing for mutual benefit - early flight
USA Indianapolis - French man Thomas breaks the car speed record 133km p/h Sport - motor racing
Paris Fashions - models walk in park - day wear - feathered hats.
Paris - Aftermath of terrible thunderstorm - clearing up operations.
Tape Ends

180880 Tape 2 220501 220501 / 1900's b/w Si 06.51.32
06.58.59
Moscow-Gymkhana - horse jumping
06.52.32 St.Petersburg- Pilot Yankovsky flying over field - aircraft landing - early flight - people posing in front of plane
06.53.24 Kiev-Icons are paraded around the streets - top shot religious parades
06.54.09 Italy Reze-The funeral of an artist - Coffin in ornate horse drawn carriage surrounded by crowds
06.54.33 France Orleon--A parade is held in honour or Joan of Ark - VIP's in top hats lead military parade through streets - parade in front of statue
06.55.24 USA Saint-Augustine- A fire has destroyed the city - pan over smoking ruins of buildings
06.55.39 An air display - early flight - monoplane in air. Bi-plane taxiis. Mono plane lands - group pose as at beginning with Pilot Yankovsky. Crowds gathered round aircraft. Bi-plane in flight and landing

LN 501-162 220610 220610 1930 b/w Si 08.01.39
08.02.55
Coste and Bellonte Receive $25,000 Award and Sail for France
Men seated at tables. Man standing in front of NBC microphone makes speech and presents two French pilots / Aviators Coste and Bellonte with cheque signed by W.E. Easterwood.
08.02.37 Men standing next to plane which has names of world wide cities painted on side. People looking at aircraft.
Early flight.

180881 220500 220500 / 1914 b/w Si 05.15.35
05.21.31
1914
Sports - Horse racing - Derby at the Moscow race course - trotting races. Winner led along track - crowds in stands.
05.16.46 Moscow - Aleksandrovsky Garden - The opening of the monument in commemmoration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty - monument - soldiers march past
05.17.23 Visit of British Naval squadron to Kronstadt - ships at anchor . Naval officer into launch. Ships in harbour.
05.18.10 Reception for British sailors in St Petersburg. Launch carrying sailors approaching harbour. Naval officers greeted. Pose for cameras.
05.19.23 Car Rally in Morocco 1914 - cars racing along dirt road next to fort? Cars at speed along dirt road.
05.20.06 Paris - Duel between Keisling and Gottlieb. Sword fighting - watched by seconds and others. Winner congratulated.
05.20.52 Paris - Pilot Bruisse survives the crash of his airplane. Aircraft takes off. Plane crashed to ground. Crowds around wreckage. Smiling pilot.

180882 Tape 1 220502 220502 / 1911 - 1913 b/w Si 08.10.17
08.16.22
Moscow - Sports - Football game between the Russian and Moscow teams
08.11.56 The Palm Sunday fair at the Red Square in Moscow
08.13.01 Odessa - Dog show
08.14.05 Armavir - Opening of new railway line between Armavir and Tuapse
08.14.54 Actress Piontkovskaya
08.15.24 Berlin - Pilot Pegout resumes flight with passengers on board - early flight

180882 Tape 1 220502 220502 / 1914 ? b/w Si 08.50.45
08.57.15 World War One ?
France, Toulon- preparations for fighting, aircraft. Crashed plane on airfield. Troops. Piles of shells. Artillery . Troops firing automatic guns in trenches. Firing artillery. Pilot in plane. Bombs on board plane. Montage short outtakes / cuts. Naval ships. Personalities. ?

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W 15.14.00
15.15.55 Navy Blimp; men carried to death & fall from ropes. Man rescued by rope. Parachutist out pf monoplane. Man w/ movie camera in plane. Biplane dispatches parachute that floats it down slowly. Bike w/ wings and men push it while lighting rocket. Tips over & man falls in cloud of smoke. Biplane fleet. Planes stunting with smoke trails. Low loop by monoplane.
Misc. Aviation Inventions & Stunts, on NAR roll w/ x2] Early Flight

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W Si 15.15.57
15.20.51 [Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Headline re Wright Flight. Horse pulling Wright Brothers plane out. Hauling up the launching weight.Dropping weight. People at early airshow. Hillside takeoff of Wright brothers glider. Wilbur Wright flies over. Wing walking with good CU. Bomb test on USS Alabama, 9/21. Loading bomb on plane; dropping; seen from air. Phosphorus bomb explosion; 2,000 lb bombs. Hulk of ship. Biplane off carrier. Dropping bomb & sinking Alabama. Biplane out of hanger. MCU of Wright Brother. Twin motor bi-plane started & flown. POV on plane. Starting pusher prop. Woman out of plane, puts on coat. POV in biplane w/ guns. First airmail. POV in early blimp. Bombing run over ship. Amphibious sea planes Catalinas flying boats. POV looking back take off of carrier. Gag of pedal plane & ramp. Early ultra-light. inc.
[Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc] Early Flight

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W Si 15.20.52
15.22.30 [Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Men with twin prop, safety experiment, airplane. Rocket airmail attempt. Man on bike with rocket attached. Falls in cloud of smoke. Men load big helicopter. Gyro-plane lands & takes off. First Sikorsky helicopter demonstrated. Round wing plane on ground & in flight. Man runs with wings & is pulled on field. Falls. Kids with model airplanes walk toward camera.
Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc early flight

220260 182609 &182170 / 1930 B/W 04.33.24
04.34.02 Texaco No 13 christened. CU of Frank M Hawks. Hawks in plane & taking off past camera and steep climb.
news paragraphs - hawk christens "mystery ship' - Flyer tries bullet plane before attempting transcontinental record trip
NB Beta has 11 hour time code

220267 182749 + 181544 / c 1926 B/W si 14.47.10 Plane taxiing on snow covered field, men run across, metal single motored, takes off away from camera. Then past camera. Slug. Men holding back small single motored plane, taxiis & quickly takes off away from camera, circles, lands past camera and returns with smoking engine. Men looking at it. Henry Ford & others. Push it off runway.
Airplanes, Commercial & Experimental]

220341 220341 220341 1927 col Sd 05.27.22
05.30.02 Air force Now - Pioneers of Flight
Plane landing in adverse weather conditions.
05.28.06 Career shots Albert Hegenberger . 1927 Hegenberger and Maitland record breaking flight over water from California to Hawaii. Ground crews prepare Fokker Trimotor aircraft called Bird of Paradise. Crowds at Oakland airport as plane takes off. Aircraft in flight. Lands in Hawaii - first aircraft from mainland.
Hegenberger specialised in blind flying / navigation.
05.29.49 Brief shot intruments for landing in B-52 - plane landing.

LN 501-152 LN 501-152 LN 501-152 1928 - 1935 b/w Si 02.29.11
02.36.33 Airship USS Akron Hooks at Lakehurst NJ.
Shot from above of airship in flight - Airship grounded. Airship leaving mooring mast. Airship taking off. Several attempts are made to hook plane onto AKRON.CU Hook-on device; plane makes another attempt to hook onto Many shots out of focus. MCU Airship on landing field.LS Airship being moved to mooring mast by many sailors.
LTA Dirigible

220342 220342 220342 1908 - 1980's col Sd 06.51.49
06.56.26 Air Force Now - Ejector Seats
Montage early flight including birth of US Air Corps and early plane crashing into wall - early use of parchutes
06.52.32 WWII Night shots air to ground searchlights - plane flying through Anti-aircraft fire - crew abandons aircraft as catches on fire. Parachutes coming down through searchlights. Plane crashes in flames ( staged
06.53.08 Ejector seat used - various sequences including plane crashing in flames after pilot has ejected.
USAF students in classroom learning about new state of the art ejection seat. Instructor to camera intercut with students - shots aircraft in trouble - manufacture of parchute assembly. Shot from cockpit of ejector seat being launched. Intercut shots of parachute preparation with pilot after ejection. Parachute deployed.
Woman USAF to camera re training and confidence in the parchutes she has packed.

220371 220371 220371 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1974 COL SD 23.39.03
23.41.36 [Air Force Now - Edward Rickenbacker]
Presenter speech re failure being key to success.
1910s Eddie Rickenbacker piloting race cars. Headlines United States and Germany at War - WWI. Enlisted Americans? march. Early plane. Rickenbacker piloting war plane. Plane downed and crash. Rickenbacker car. Eastern Air Lines aircrafts. Aerial Washington.
WWII: stranded at sea after plane crash and rescue.
1974 - Rickenbacker AFB renamed - airshow and plaque uncovered
Oil painting Eddie Rickenbacker.

220374 220374 220374 1927; 1940s - 1960s? COL SD 03.40.07
03.43.34 [Air Force Now - Pioneers of Flight - Ira C. Eaker]
02May27 - Calvin Coolidge at Bolling Field return of Pan-American flyers through South America after 20500 miles "Goodwill Flight" from San Antonio. Loening OA-1A planes.
Captain Ira Eaker.
First refuelling of planes in flight. Pilots out of plane. Fokker plane The Question Mark.
world war one American Infantry. Ira Eaker at phone ca. 1940s. 8th Air Force (bombers) in flight. Eaker as Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (MAAF) commander. Ploesti bombing and bombing European targets. Eaker with other officers on airfield.
Eaker as old man. Early refuelling plane in flight.

220635 220635 220635 1916 ? B/W SIL 14:00:24 - 14:13:54 Champagne - Marne Operations July 15-18th
18th Field artillery move along road near Viffort. Supply boxes unloaded from lorry at Courboin. 111th infantry man trenches at Viffort. Small explosions as 150th FA bombards Suippes. German plane falling from sky. Crashed aircraft on ground, troops stand around as injured helped. 18th FA units reorganise positions. 117th Engrs ride through St. Hilaire. 167th and 168th Inf. units rest near Souain
14:06:53 30th Inf. wounded are treated at an aid station. Men taken from ambulances. Injured on stretchers outside field hospital. Destroyed military equipment and dead horse. Troops march down road.
14:10:36 Prisoners are questioned. Destroyed enemy artillery and equipment. Shots damaged housing and destroyed bridge at Chateau-Thierry.
14:13:28 A Y.M.C.A. rolling canteen serves refreshments.
Regiment and location details taken from NARA card.

LN 050-019 LN 050-019 LN 050-019 1910 b/w Si 15.02.21
15.05.54
Colonel Roosevelt Is Invited to Fly In Arch Hoxsey's Plane at St Louis, MO.
copyrighted 11.10.1910
Theodore Roosevelt campaigning for Missouri State republican Party w/ Missouri Governor Herbert S. Hadley and probably Henry W. Kiel, mayor of St Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, arrive in cars at Kinloch Aviation field amidst crowd, man in uniform w/ megaphone. men in cars pointing and applauding. Twin propeller plane turned, Roosevelt climbs on board with difficulty. Man with megaphone. Hoxsey explains controls to TR. Plane in flight dips and dives. TR gets off plane, shakes hands. Cars leaving airfield past camera.

LN 501-052 LN 501-052 LN 501-052 1921 B/W Si 14.20.40
14.31.42 Aerial Bombing Tests of Watercraft
Covers aerial bombardment tests on captured German warships and an obsolete USN battleships under the direction of Brig. Gen William "Billy" Mitchell. AV's of destroyer G-102 under bombing attack and sinking. 13 July 1921. 14.22.29 AV's of the cruiser FRANKFURT under bombing attack and sinking, shows turbulence and debris on the face, 18 July 1921.
14.25.49 TITLE: EXPERIMENTS ON THE AERIAL BOMBING OF WATERCRAFT. C-Class airship (blimp) LTA on mooring mast and in flight. Bombing Crews gathered in field for briefing. Mass takeoffs of SE-5 A's and a DH-4B De-Haviland and a NBS-1 taking off singly. Early aircraft
14.27.33 AV's of US Navy Battleship of the Atlantic Fleet in Convoy. AVs of the Seaplane tender USS SHAWMUT and transport USS Henderson at sea (Bombing observation ships.) AMLS of the Submarine U-117 at sea. AMS of destroyer G-102 at sea. AMS of destroyer G-102 at sea. AMS of the cruiser Frankfurt at sea. AMS of the battleship OSTFRIESLAND at sea.
14.29.35 AMS of the DH-4 in flight. This is Gen. Mitchell's aircraft. AMS of the USN NC-8 in flight This was Captain Moffett's plane. AVs of the U-117 under bombing attack - explosions - and half submerged and debris on surface after sinking. AMS of G-102 under bombing attack and sinking
Debris floating on sea.

LN 501-071 LN 501-071 LN 501-071 1920's / 1930's B/W Sd 18.35.56
18.40.05 Navy Aviation - 1920's & 1930's
Biplanes lined up by shore. Battleship with biplane over. Flying over submarine. Sailors assembling small biplane in front of barracks as civilian man in suit watches. Put on prop. Title: Pensacola, FL student-aviators take Pathe News cameraman for an aerial... 3 amphib bi-planes take off. Plane loaded on USS Colorado catapult. Bi-plane landing on aircraft carrier. 5 amphibious sea planes in flight, air to air. Many bi-planes overhead. Amphib. take off. Planes supered over map of Pacific. Navy dirigible Los Angeles on test flight, Montauk L.I. to Lakehurst in air & view from. Men on ground, Capt. in flight. Air to air view. Approaching mooring mast on USS Patokee and mooring. Men out of dirigible / LTA to mast. Los Angeles leaving, tethered. Biplane diving.

LN 501-083 220466 220466 1920's ? B/W Si 02.00.05
02.01.49 Scenes From Conquest of the Air
Short scenes early flight, very early air power show., single motor bi-planes. Man with huge cardboard wings strapped to his back jumps off rock and falls on his face. Various early flight aerial contraptions are tried out with amusing results / accidents.

LN 501-085 LN 501-085 LN 501-085 1928 - 1930 b/w Si 01.00.20
01.10.27 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30
Unedited footage of expedition - dogs, huskies being fed, camp, sleds. Blizzard. Light plane flies over camp. Shots of snow covered mountains. Plotting on map. Group plant small American flag. Part off across snow, dogs pulling sleds. Pile of rocks - message point - message removed from can - cu message written in 1911

LN 501-085 LN 501-085 LN 501-085 1928 - 1930 b/w Si 01.32.50
01.40.25 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30 Reel Four
Unedited footage of expedition - Camp; supplies; eating; surveying; shoveling snow & building huts; working in blizzard; interiors in library. Map. Fueling single engine plane on skiis & take off. Geologists gathering samples. Digging out plane. Wrecked plane & smashed radio. Eating chocolate & drinking.Plane landing.

LN 501-085 LN 501-085 LN 501-085 1928 - 1930 b/w Si 01.40.40
01.51.38 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30 Reel Five - much same as reel four
Unedited footage of expedition - Birds; penguins. Interior of library Eating. Surveying; Crashed plane & smashed radio. Men eating chocolate & drinking hot coffee(?).

LN 501-103 LN 501-103 LN 501-103 1930 b/w Si 01.23.02
01.23.42 Big Blimp Destroyed by Aerial Gunners in Sham War Thrill
Dirigible on ground and seen from above, planes fly near dirigible as it floats. Dirigible pilot shoots with gun. Parachutes jump. Smoke in sky

LN 501-103 LN 501-103 LN 501-103 1930 b/w Si 01.14.30
01.15.00 Endurance Flyers break World Marks in 533 Hours 41 Mins
Plane flies low over crowd and monument. Crowd runs in field. Plane lands amidst crowd. Pilot smiles. Pilot black with soot smokes next to woman. CU hugging with other man looking sad.

LN 501-103 LN 501-103 LN 501-103 1930 b/w Si 01.19.24
01.20.42 British Airmen Thrill Crowds in Sensational Feats
Plane overhead with black smoke does loops. Two planes, helicopter fly very close and drop parachutes. Parachutes land in field w/ spectators.

LN 501-114 LN 501-114 LN 501-114 1914 - 1918 b/w Si 02.24.16
02.25.05 World War One - American Aero Corps.
Planes on field. Painting of Red Indian chief on aircraft. French pilots. Pilots with tiger cubs ?

LN 501-114 LN 501-114 LN 501-114 1914 - 1918 b/w Si 02.26.32
02.29.44 World War One - Various
French ? Soldiers playing game like quoits ? plane flies overhead and they rush to cover artillery / gun with camouflage / branches of trees. Barell of gun has August painted on.
02.26.58 Soldier looking at anti aircraft gun ? Man up telegraph pole. Soldier on field telephone - communications. Troops hammering in posts and barbed wire fences.
02.28.32 Soldiers at outdoor / field service.
02.28.59 British soldiers looking at remains of huge gun - soldier clambering on mechanism. Soldier comparing width of barrell with his chest.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1914 b/w Si 05.12.00
05.15.40 Early Flight
First moving pictures of Chacago from the air - aerial views
Harold McCormick, Jr and Aviator Witmer getting aircraft and camera ready . Sea-plane takes off - bi-plane in flight.
05.12.53 The Coast line - buildings - industry. Shots through wires of plane wings as travels along coastline.
05.14.45 AVs City of Chicago - fairly low over buildings. Sign on roof Boston Store - smoking chimneys / pollution
05.15.34 Bi-plane chasing car on track.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1914 b/w Si 05.15.41
05.17.18 Early Flight - Urga Mongolia
Title - Russian fliers complete long flight from Moscow to Peking. Aerial pioneers are welcomed at sacred city of the Mongols while on their way to China.
Mono-plane landing. Crowds on airfield. Pilots welcomed. Band. Mongolian idol bearers to bring good luck to pilots. Troubadour - local man playing primitive instrument. Children. Natives in traditional costume with strange head-dresses.
05.16.44 In Peking crowds welcome fliers at the end of their epic flight. Plane landing. Pilots welcomed. Marshal Tuan, Chief Executive of China, honours Russia's intrepid aviators whose flight opens up aerial communication between Europe and China.

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1924 b/w Si 05.20.40
05.35.08 Early Flight - Section from Round the World Flight
Plane lifted by crane into water - bi-plane moving around on water
05.23.43 Pilots pose in group in front of plane with Air Service USA insignia. Pilots shaking hands with British? pilots. Plane on lake
05.24.56 Unidentified country - pilot congratulated. Wheels removed from aircraft and replaced by pontoons.Flag presented to pilot
05.28.50 Planes on airfield. Group of young ladies prepare picnic tea for aviators. Tea and cakes. Pilot shows girls on plane insignia which is a map where they have flown.
05.30.43 Bi-plane landing - foggy ? Pilots get mail . Other planes landing
05.33.41 Engine repairs

LN 501-116 LN 501-116 LN 501-116 1928 b/w Si 06.19.40
06.32.09 Early Flight - Wright Brothers Various news clippings showing honours bestowed on the Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft.
06.27.11 At Kitty Hawk, N.C. The Wright Bothers made their first flight 25 years ago
CS coverage of Wright brothers' plane being assembled by mechanics and prepared for flight. Wright sitting in cockpit with another person. Launching by means of catapault. Camera pans across with the Wright aircraft (Scenes in France).
06.28.02 First use of airplanes in National Defence. Formation of early model aircraft, approximately 15, Bi-wing planes. Unable to identify. IIn the Navy - Several shots of the early model aircraft taking off from aircraft carrier - bi-planes. Aerial shot showing the aircraft carrier underway. Early models taking off.
06.28.21 Lindbergh flight from New York to Paris CS of Colonel Lindbergh, none in flight.
06.28.32 High Angle shot looking down at civilian aircraft, early model transport planes, showing passengers walking up ramp into aircraft (Imperial airways Condor, C-30 aircraft). MLS mail trucks in center of airfield. Aircraft parked in circle around the mail trucks. Several shots of unloading the mail into various types of early model aircraft. On side of truck is "Air Mail Service". Fairchild C-8 type aircraft. Name on side of airplane is Nat. US Mail Express. Shows aircraft stationary and then taxiing. C-8 approach for takeoff. Takes off directly over top of cameraman. ADS early model air mail aircraft in flight over large city.
06.29.06 Orville Wright, the "man who started it all". MS Orville Wright standing on steps of building with three small boys standing in front of him holding model aircraft.
06.29.34 title - 25TH Air birthday, Dayton, Ohio. CS of Orville Wright standing on steps of building playing with model aircraft with his three nephews. CS of one of the nephews holding medal which is enclosed in small case. Title - World Pays Tribute to Wright Bros. Dayton Ohio, Airmen join in international memorial on 25th birthday of first flight. MS looking at line of early model aircraft on exhibit. CS camera pans across from tail to nose of model of first Wright plane. Two men sitting at controls of the aircraft.
06.30.35 Title Hail Wrights as aviation forges on - Wright brothers' home in Dayton, Ohio - Orville Wright flanked by Army, Navy and civilian representatives. Memorial ceremony in cemetery in honor of Wilbur Wright showing various dignitaries walking up to the tombstone.Several street scenes of early Dayton showing also Wrights' home and bicycle shop. CS model of the Wright brothers first aircraft on small stand. CS of engine of the first Wright aircraft.
06.31.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. (PARAM0UNT NEWS). CS of G-2 autogyro stationary. CU of pilot sitting at cockpit of the autogyro. Several pan shots of autogyro aircraft demonstration showing takeoff, flight and landing. Good

LN 501-121 LN 501-121 LN 501-121 1927 b/w Si 12.25.50
12.39.35 Air Passenger Service & Manufacturing Tri-Motor
Interior factory, Ford tri-motor plane under construction - installing the wing engines with metal propellers. Adding wings. Progressive assembly line - tracking shot over top of line.
12.29.10 Trimming department adding finisheing touches to upholstery etc. Interior aircraft showing seating arrangements . Plane undergoes final inspection before leaving factory. Flight test inspection. Man inspecting tail fin, Ford Tri-motor on tail. Aircraft taxis on apron has SafeWay painted on side. Businessmen take delivery of new aircraft and go for flight.
12.32.20 Passenger terminal, passengers arriving in bus , buying tickets from ticket office. People behind fence watching. Good shots as passengers / tourists board plane " Stout Air Lines" Interior cabin, luggage stowed away Plane taxis and takes off. Air to air plane in flight, interior cabin, passengers looking out of windows. AVs city. Plane lands and passengers alight.
12.38.19 The Ford tri-motor on pontoons being tested. Sea-plane taxis on water. Plane was purchased by Canadian government for dusting Spruce trees. Aircraft takes off, circles and lands on water.

LN 501-121 LN 501-121 LN 501-121 1929 b/w Si 12.40.00
12.45.20 Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour
Ford airport and bunting draped buidings, crowds, planes and balloons. Tracking shots past crowds. Many aircraft lined up on grass.
12.42.36 Race / tour started by Edsel Ford ? . Various planes take off both mono and bi-planes. Dirigible flies over field and lands. Many hot air balloons some semi inflated. One with Detriot on side takes off. Good shot many balloons in flight. Aircraft taking off. Crowds looking at dirigible.

LN 501-121 LN 501-121 LN 501-121 1928 b/w Sd 12.47.45
12.58.55 Coast to Coast in 48 Hours
See titles for corporations. SOUND UNUSABLE. Five men seated round desk as one, probably General W. Watterbury, President Pennsylvania Railways, does piece to camera, introduces Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Clement Keys, Daniel M. Sheaffer, Jack Maddux .
12.49.49 Aerial of NYC & Penn Station; ext. & int. people buy tickets. Goodbyes. Airway Limited leaving with people on rear. POV alongside wheels & Pullman cars. Into Columbus. Billboard, passengers into rest rooms with attendants. Boarding plane & interior. Take off & plane past Columbus bldgs. Flying past train over snow. Passengers looking at map.Landing. Teletype & reading tape. Ford tri-motor landing - Passengers into terminal at St. Louis. Mechanics & Lindbergh. Boarding, pilots w/ weather charts. Weather balloon Passengers eating. Aerial of Kansas City & Wichita. Pilot, tower, & radio operator speaking. Talk to mics. Lindbergh flies past. Passengers into trailer van. Eat at formal dinner table.

LN 501-123 220565 220565 1914 ? b/w Sd 12.15.23
12.18.13 World War One - Montage / cuts
Ex Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia on horse watching troops ride past. - repeated shots from start of tape. Tsar Nicholas and family down steps and into carriage. France ? Early flight - contraption intercut with people in stands - VIPs shake hands. Flying contraption - bi-plane takes off - launched by weighted mechanism. Spectators in stands.
12.17.00 George V with Queen Mary and Prince of Wales at ceremony.
12.17.21 Crowds walking in USA ?
12.17.54 Hess speaking - wrecked German equipment. Lines of aircraft on field

LN 501-134 LN 501-134 LN 501-134 1927 b/w Si 06.17.54
06.22.57 [Lindbergh Flight & Celebration]
In car down street. Harbor shots on return to NYC with many tugboats. Ashore at Battery. Tickertape parade. Police fighting crowd. At City Hall with Mayor Walker. Speaking at mic. Police leading parade. CU in cockpit. By plane with mother. Getting into plane. Taxiing & taking off as cars follow. High angle of night crowd in Paris running onto field past lights & cameramen. 06.21.00 on balcony at night. Daytime looking down on people & up at Lindbergh stretching flag. American & French flags held. Waves to crowd. In Brussels. Various shots of planes. Pan Brussels crowd. Lindbergh waving. Down gangway of ship and off in car. Parade up Pennsylvania Ave in car. High angle of enormous crowd. Beginning of NYC parade.

LN 501-178 LN 501-178 LN 501-178 1910 B/W Si 17.06.30
17.11.14 Flight from London to Manchester
Film coverage of Mr. Farman testing one of the two Farman planes to be flown by Graham White and Louis Paulhan in competition for a prize of 10,000 pounds offered by "The Daily Mail" for the first flight from London to Manchester.
17.07.56 Graham White starts from Park Royal April 23rd 5.15 a.m. Plane takes off. White arrives Rugby establishing World record flight across country of 75 miles. Plane lands. White walking with crowd.
17.09.50 Leaving for breakfast in Lord Denbich's Brougham. Crowds surround White as he climbs into coach.
17.10.08 leaving Rugby. Plane takes off. Paulhan won the prize - White's plane developed engine trouble.

220349 220349 220349 1900's - 1910's - 1930's 1940's 1980's COL&B/W SD 13.13.06
13.20.18 [Air Force Now - Project Warrior - Igor Sikorsky]
Russian aviation engineer Sikorsky: Retrospective
Native American Indian silhouette on horse at dawn and titles "Project Warrior" superimpose. Presenter CU.
Son at grave of Igor Sikorsky, early aviation engineer. CU son and early plane model in foreground
13.14.12 WW1 firing guns and explosions, soldiers out of trenches. Igor Sikorsky. Still first prototype biplane bomber . Women throw flowers at soldiers. Storming of Winter Palace? Pile of guns. Orthodox priest. Russian palace on fire (staged). Waves crashing on rocks. Immigrants. Statue of Liberty.
Stills: biplane in front of small hangar with sign 'Sikorsky" in Long Island. Manufacturing plane in garden. Pilots in front of plane.
All-metal twin-engine airliner. S-38. Plane factory. 13.15.42 Sikorsky at new plant in Stratford, Connecticut with Lindbergh. S-40 amphibious plane in flight, interior S-40 cockpit with control panel, S-40 on sea.
Sikorsky's son talks about Sikorsky's first interest about aviation stemming from Leonardo da Vinci and reading Jules Verne. Da Vinci early helicopter sketch.
13.16.39 Early helicopter failed experiments.
Aged Sikorsky talks re helicopter. Younger Sikorsky pilots early helicopter VS-300 (B/W & COL). Early helicopter lands on water . Pearl Harbor and newspaper headlines. XR-4 first army helicopter in flight and inside, flies around Capitol. Various World War Two locations and uses, rescue helicopter, large helicopter.
13.19.19 helicopter lifts up house. Reaches boat on fire at sea. Lifting wounded? man. Dropping food in Africa? and people on ground run to collect rations. Lifting man on rope. Igor Sikorsky out of plane with man in uniform. Still Sikorsky as old man. Helicopter acrobatics.

LN 501-221 220687 220687 1928 B/W SD 19:44:18 - 19:52:50 Coast to Coast Reel Two
Animated map showing Sante Fe area. Passengers leave the Sante Fe train and board plane. Tri-motor aircraft takes off. Map. Plane flies over mountains. Brief AVs Albuquerque. Local native indians watching plane coming into land. Passengers / tourists looking at local wares / pots etc for sale. Three young women relax in front of fire waiting for plane to be readied. Native indian brings little indian boy to look at plane. Baby in papoose.
19:46:44 Passengers return to plane - shots inside cabin. Map with destination Winslow Arizona. Plane flying over mountains - interior, young woman writing letter. AVs over mountains. Brief AV Winslow. Hand holding telegram tickertape re arrived Winslow.
19:47:41 Plane being refuelled at airport. Passengers in cabin given souvenir postcards. Plane flying over crater. AVs canyons.
19:48:47 Teletape re arrived Kingman. Pix passengers boarding plane in Kingman Arizona. CU wheel as plane lifts off. Interior cabin. AV crossing Colorado river into California. Flying over Mojave desert - mountains. Interior cabin. AV Observatory on the top of Mount Wilson. AVs over Los Angeles. Empire State building superimposed over Los Angeles cityscape.
19:50:49 Sign Los Angeles, man with megaphone announces arrival of plane - plane lands. Good shot as tri-motor taxiis towards camera. Passenger alight. Young women in very typical twenties dresses.
Elderly unid. man introduced to man and Amelia Earhardt / Earhart. Montage - plane and trains across map of USA. CU pilot Lindbergh.

LN 501-223 220689 220689 1914 - 1918 B/W SIL 01:19:24 - 01:24:00 World War One - Stock Newsreel Excerpts -
Staged Film re-enactment - Barrage balloon in flames falls to ground - Tanks towards camera - over barbed wire - very close shots. "German" troops firing machine gun. Troops advance under fire. Aircraft - dogfights. Plane goes down in flames. Aircraft fighting sequence. German planes crash landing on field. Ham actor in plane "dies" and falls out of plane (funny)

WC 4061 220710 220710 1918 B/W SIL 08:15:57 - 08:33:16 Retreat of the Germans at the Battle of Arras, The - Reel 4
Civil Service Rifles and London Irish return to a rest camp. Essex regiment engineers repair bridges and roads; build small railways for ammunition & supplies London Stock Exchange Battalion rest on way to Arras. Advance Cyclist Patrol arrives at village and welcomed by villagers.
08:20:23 Pres. Poincare' visits a recaptured village. The 10th Hussars arrive in Arras. Arras railway station. Gordons celebrate the arrival of the first train in Arras for 2 years. Scenes in recaptured town of Roye: troops chatting with civilians etc. Captured emplacements and guns - German tunnel under road. "Tommies" in bomb crater; building shelter. Australian troops. Tanks are cleaned and repaired and take up positions. British planes return through clouds - aerial views countryside.

SN 501-005 220297 SN 501-005 1918 B/W si 1:00:55
1:12:03 WWI Flashes of Action segments - First aid in the front lines. Wounded of the 30th Division between Villeret and Bellicourt - September 29th 1918 - Wounded treated in trenches - medics
101:01:23 Machine gunning the enemy 1st Division at Exermont October 4th 1918 - reducing a machine gun nest with rifles and hand grenades - grenade thrown - looking out over trench with binoculars.
01:02:23 128th Infantry 32nd Division at Austerlitz Woods Alsace, Germany 5th June 1918 - gas attack by the enemy - troops put on masks - explosions - firing gas - using rifles from trenches
01:03:27 Shelling of Tiaucourt, France by the Germans 26th September 1918 - explosions over town
01:04:32 German shells bursting in Rambucourt, France during the German attack on Seicheprey,
April 20,1918 Commander in Chief decorates private on the battlefield.
01:04:51 German plane about to attack an American balloon from which the observer drops in a parachute Near Montfaucon October 3rd 1918
01:05:39 British troops ? Anti aircraft guns put up a protesting barrage arround the balloon - exploding shells - artillery - balloon set on fire - plane shot down - loading and firing big guns ( field gun )
01:08:11 Tanks advance - artillery firing
01:10:53 Squadron of US bi-planes led by Lt. Quentin Roosevelt
01:11:52 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker flies over the lines - bombing German lines - night firing
World War One

WC 4059 220673
220673 191? B/W SIL 04:00:37 - 04:14:21 France in Arms
Nieuport planes take off and do acrobatics. Rifle practice. A seaplane takes off, taxis, and lands. An observation balloon is inflated, ascends, and lands. The observer fires his machine gun while in the air. French soldiers move into trenches. Ammunition is brought from the depot to the front by train.

WC 4052 LN 501-229 220694 220694 1919? B/W SIL 06:45:10 - 07:00:34 WWI - Glimpses of Persons, Places and Events reel 2
Japanese Amb. Matsui; Henry White, Foch, Lansing, Arthur Balfour, Adm. Benson, Gen. Bliss, and others at the Quai d'Orsay. Poincare departs. Pres. and Mrs. Wilson arrive. Clemenceau leaves. Sec. of the Navy Daniels and Adm. Benson arrive at the Ritz. Unid. Arab delegates. Pres. Wilson, Dr. Wellington Koo, Ignace Paderewski, and the Greek delegate Venizelos arrive at the Crillon. King George V is greeted at a Paris station by President Poincaré and rides through the streets. Poincaré greets King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium at the station. The royalty ride in a procession. Victor Emmanuel III arrives by train. Unid. plane takeoff.

WC 4032 220671 220671 1916 B/W SIL 00:15:06 - 00:31:31 WWI - Battle of Ancre
Reel 2, rations arrive at the trenches and smiling men eat wearing goatskins. Ration party fetches water for men in the front line. Irish regiment take up positions in trenches. Men board tank - officer takes his black cat. Troops travel communicating trenches to the front. Scottish (incl. Argyle, Sutherlands, Royal Scots, Cameronians) and Brit. troops begin the attack. Scottish soldier takes message. Firing big gun. First German POWs brought back. Troops in trench watch battle. Stretcher bearers bring in wounded. Reserve troops are pushed forward. Batteries of RHA move off from a wood to take up advanced positions. Captured German colonel and troops are herded to the rear and searched. Antiaircraft guns strafe German planes. Mail distribution. Royal Naval Division after the attack and capture of Beaucourt.
Battle of the Somme?

LN 501-261 03:01:29 03:02:21 New Altitude Record
Elinor Smith sets new altitude record. Roosevelt Field, NY. Helped on with gear, plane takes off, landing, helped out of plane and shown w/ breathing tube. Brief look in medium shot (MS) looking at altimeter (?).|

LN 501-261 03:29:58 03:30:46 Girl sets flight record
HISTORICAL RECORD FLIGHTS,12 Apr27 12Jul29
Includes coverage of 26 hour endurance flight of Elinor Smith at Roosevelt Field. (Photo'd by Pathe, Paramount, International Newsreel). GIRL SETS FLIGHT RECORD FOR WOMEN, ROOSEVELT FIELD, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK. ELINOR SMITH, 17, UP 26 HOURS REGAINS ENDURANCE AIR HON0R. PATHE NEWS. 681' LS of Wright Whirlwind Bellanca monoplane landing to right after 23-24 April 1929 endurance flight. 687' Series of shots of crowds greeting Elinor Smith in cockpit of Bellanca monoplane, 708' TIRED OUT BUT VERY HAPPY. PATHE NEWS. 713' MS of Elinor Smith in crowd. 720' Total footage in reel. Good.

220258 220258 182607 &170042 / B/W sd 15.22.38
15.31.31 Fighter bursts into flame on carrier. Planes crash off deck. In flight; RAF bombers take off. Soldier points. Bombers lined up & motors running. Dive bomber. Various bombers & troops moving ahead. German planes in air. Germans across bridge. WWI Plane. Wing walker changing planes. POV from plane. Heavy seas & naval vessels including aircraft carrier w/ spray across. German planes in flight. Jet. Crowd in street waving . Early aviation with box-like plane taking off. Jet in flight & low pass over airport. Early aviators. Jet & landing gear. NC-4 & Navy aviators MCU. In flight. Biplane off battleship. Crashes on carrier landings. Landing with missing wheel. Jet fly-by. Nose art--the turtle. JATO. Troops race into large plane. Tilt up Empire State building & fire after crash. B-29
Misc. Military Aviation early flight

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W Si 15.20.52
15.22.30 [Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Men with twin prop, safety experiment, airplane. Rocket airmail attempt. Man on bike with rocket attached. Falls in cloud of smoke. Men load big helicopter. Gyro-plane lands & takes off. First Sikorsky helicopter demonstrated. Round wing plane on ground & in flight. Man runs with wings & is pulled on field. Falls. Kids with model airplanes walk toward camera.
Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc early flight

LN 501-083 220466 220466 1920's ? B/W Si 02.00.05
02.01.49 Scenes From Conquest of the Air
Short scenes early flight, very early air power show., single motor bi-planes. Man with huge cardboard wings strapped to his back jumps off rock and falls on his face. Various early flight aerial contraptions are tried out with amusing results / accidents.

LN 501-123 220565 220565 1914 ? b/w Sd 12.15.23
12.18.13 World War One - Montage / cuts
Ex Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia on horse watching troops ride past. - repeated shots from start of tape. Tsar Nicholas and family down steps and into carriage. France ? Early flight - contraption intercut with people in stands - VIPs shake hands. Flying contraption - bi-plane takes off - launched by weighted mechanism. Spectators in stands.
12.17.00 George V with Queen Mary and Prince of Wales at ceremony.
12.17.21 Crowds walking in USA ?
12.17.54 Hess speaking - wrecked German equipment. Lines of aircraft on field