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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220640-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1908,1909,1915,1921,1900s,1910s,1920s
Country: France,Italy,USA
Location: Fort Myers,Issy-les-Moulineaux,Les Mans,RHEIMS,San Francisco
TC Begins: 19:35:25
TC Ends: 19:51:41
Duration: 00:16:16
1900 - 1920s - Aviation Development: Early Flight Intertitle: “Lt. Foulois & Orville Wright make the first cross-country flight. Fort Myers to Alexandria VA.” 30Jul09 Climb into seat of plane. MS Men aboard plane. 19:36:01 Intertitle: “In 1909 Wilbur Wright demonstrated his invention before the King of Italy & Italian Government officials.” 19:36:14 Plane rolled out from hanger / building. View from rear as plane moves down rail, it takes off, bounces. Seen in low flight beyond cadets & Victor Emanuel, King of Italy. Other civilians watch. 19:36:45 Intertitle: “During these flights the first motion pictures were made from an airplane.” 19:36:55 View from aircraft taking off on launch rail & while in flight. 19:37:18 Intertitle: “Among the most successful competitors of the Wrights...Farman’s machine...” 19:37:32 CU Tail section of Henri Farman’s plane; pan right, three men work on plane (scene from 1908). 19:37:42 Intertitle: “Farman filled his tank... made a flight at Issy-les-Moulineaux in early 1908” pours gasoline from small can. Plane takes off, flies past. 19:38:24 Intertitle: “Louis Bleriot...to successfully fly English channel...” MCU 25Jul09 in plane, leaves. 19:39:02 Intertitle: ??. Rheims, France. Glen Curtiss seated in plane man spins propeller & take off. 19:39:44 Intertitle re flying low for safety. Biplane in flight close to ground (done during early days for safety). 19:40:11 Intertitle & 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco Lincoln Beachey biplane stunting. CU. 19:40:42 Intertitle & air-to-air ca 1921 MS of stunt man Jersey Ringel standing on right wing of biplane, in flight; camera plane close & CU stuntman hangs by knee from loop under right wing of biplane in flight. 19:41:25 Intertitle re other early odd plane, one w/ rotors on wings. 19:42:00 Intertitle re Mitchell Tests of aircraft bombing on battleships w/ 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? 19:42:54 Intertitle & Air to Air MLS Plane lays smoke curtain. 19:44:08 Intertitle & AtoG MS bomb hit on after part of USS New Jersey (1920s); keel as ship rolls over. 19:45:25 Intertitle: USS Virginia. Direct bomb hit on after part; aerial of damage & sinking. w/ bow under. 19:46:36 Intertitle re Wilbur Wright 08Aug08 Le Mans, France flight & VIPs watch & overhead. Headlines. 19:47:43 Wilbur putting transporter wheel under aircraft & other demonstrations of catapulting. Inventions; Inventors; Pioneers; Aviators; Pilots; Transportation Development; Oddities; Failures; Gags; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; Aircraft; Airplanes; Military Testing;