Reel Number: 250086-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1947
Country: USA
Location: California,San Francisco
TC Begins: 02:14:23
TC Ends: 02:15:05
Duration: 00:00:42
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Title. 02:14:26 17Jun47 Man hands flags to pilot, shakes hands. Five men in suits posing. CUs man, older woman, young woman w/ corsage. Group posing on stairs to plane. CU sign on plane: Clipper America; spectators; four-engine, double-tail Constellation L749 Clipper America airplane taking off, wheels up. Pan American World Airways; Commercial Aviation; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; NOTE: First ever regularly scheduled around-the-world service began w/ Pan Am westbound Flight 1 stopping in Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkock, Manila, Kolkata / Calcutta, Delhi, Beirut, Istanbul, Frankfurt, London & New York. Flight 2 circled the globe east bound from NYC.