1927 - USA Aviation: Kinogram Newsreel - Transatlantic Flight of The America. Jun-Jul27

1927 - USA Aviation: Kinogram Newsreel - Transatlantic Flight of The America Titles. 06:09:45 Unpainted trimotor plane rolled out onto field, pushed backward. Engines started. 06:10:08 Title: “With designer Fokker at the controls, & w/ Commander Byrd, Lt. Noville & pilot Floyd Bennett as passengers...” 06:10:19 LS plane banking in flight & low overhead. Aerial of plane flying, turning, low & landing nosing over w/ people running out & people helped out of plane. 06:11:31 People including man on crutches looking at repaired plane painted w/ name. MCU men look at motor. 06:11:43 Title: Byrd Hops Off For Paris! Roosevelt Field, N.Y.... Kinogram Special. 06:11:54 Plane, America Peace, pulled by car & pushed by men sideways out of hanger. HA man turning propellor, crowd watching. Plane taxiing. 06:12:25 Title: “On the runway...” Plane backed up incline (29Jun27). 06:12:58 CU pilot & ?? looking out of side & top of cockpit; LS over spectators of plane down incline & across field, taking off. People chase. 06:13:51 Title. “On her way... Planes overhead alongside America. People on field watching. 06:14:24 Title: “With her faithful Whirlwind motors missing not one beat...France cloaked in fog.” Drawing of globe w/ lightning over Atlantic. 06:14:56 Title: “Defeated? Not Byrd! Dawn finds the four flyers safe...” Stills of plane in water near shore. 06:15:31 MCU four posing in front of ivy covered wall. Men inflating rubber raft on ground. Three men sitting in inflated raft pretend to row. Rubber raft on water, tugs beyond. Men beside America raft. Crowd around beached plane on mud flats. in rain. . MCU moving plane onto land; cloth over striucture removed; motors on beach inspected. 06:17:12 Title: Again the President cables congratulations... 06:18:15 Title: All Paris tries to meet the Americans at St. Lazare station... Crowd mobbing fliers. HA motorcade caught in crowd filling plaza. 06:19:05 Title: Reverently Byrd pays tribute... Laying wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Saluting French male & female athletes parading past. 06:19:54 Title: “On the Fourth...visit Monument to the Monument to the American Fallen. Large group in MCU, thru crowds. Title: W/ Chamberlin & Levine, Byrd meets Bleriot... CUs. Title: Byrd pays hommage to France’s martyrs... Walking w/ injured in wheelchairs, canes, etc. Title: New York gives royal welcome... MS coming off ship gangway, tug alongside. Posing. GOOD harbor shots of tugs, fireboats. Title. Up Lower Broadway past military & crowds w/ confetti & ticker-tape parade. Crowd at city hall 06:23:34 Title: “For the first time...Byrd is to explore by airplane...around South Pole.” End Part 1. Adventurers; Explorers; Celebrities; Celebrations; Aviation Pioneers; NOTE: Bennett seriously injured in first crash; replaced by Bernt Balchen. Also involved Bert Acosta, George Noville & Byrd.