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1914 ca - Aviation, USA: Early Flight - First moving pictures of Chicago From the Air

Reel Number: 220640-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914,1910s

Country: USA

Location: CHICAGO, Illinois

TC Begins: 19:12:00

TC Ends: 19:15:39

Duration: 00:03:39

1914 ca - Aviation, USA: Early Flight - First moving pictures of Chicago From the Air Title. 19:12:08 Harold McCormick, Jr & Aviator pilot Charles Witmer getting aircraft, Curtiss Flying-Boat Edith (?) & camera ready. Two seaplanes into water & takes off - biplane in flight from another. View of three women passengers waving scarfs & laughing in open twin-propellor airplane. 19:12:53 Title: The coast line. View along Lake Michigan shore w/ park, city buildings & industrial smokestacks. Shots through wires of plane wings as traveling along coastline. 19:13:35 L. to R. Low along causeway / breakwater w/ moored boats beyond. Dredges. Moored ships & building sites on west bank of lake, passing apartment buildings. Aerial over anchored pleasure boats. 19:14:43 Title: The heart of Chicago photographed for the first time from an airplane. 19:14:50 Aerials / AVs of Chicago w/ closely packed buildings & low over tall buildings. Sign on roof: Boston Store w/ steam, smoking chimneys & pollution 19:15:31 Biplane low, chasing / racing car on race track w/ flagman. 1910s; Aerial Photography; Firsts; NOTE: If requested will provide 19:12:00 - 19:17:16 ( cards) at per reel rate.

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