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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221711-11
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1938
Country: USA
Location: Chicago,Illinois
TC Begins: 06:31:33
TC Ends: 06:32:43
Duration: 00:01:10
Howard Hughes Gets Big Welcome In The Mid-West 06:31:39 Pan w/ twin-engine airplane, Lockheed L-14 Super Electra, landing r. to l. Small crowd runs across tarmac; gathers around airplane. 06:31:48 MCU Hughes in felt hat surrounded by photographers & others. 06:31:53 Downtown parade w/ marching units & many spectators; Hughes & others riding in open cars behind police marching unit. Hughes waving; POV alongside parade. 06:32:11 Title: Houston, Tex. 06:32:14 LS low factory building w/ roof sign: Hughes Tool. Co. 06:32:18 Int. Man at lathe & adjusting turning cutter. Ext. Man locking gates w/ sign: closed today. CU. 06:32:25 MCU nose of Super Electra taxiing past; pioneer man w/ team of oxen posing w/ crowd around Hughes outside of plane; CU Hughes. MS shaking hands w/ pioneer. Posing for photographers Aviation; 1938; Celebrity Publicity; Pilot; NOTE: Probably after completing round-the-world record flight in NYC.