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1939 - USA Aviation: Big News In Aviation (Airmail To Europe; Boeing 307 Stratoliner)

Reel Number: 250086-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1939

Country: USA

Location: N,New York City,NYC Port Washington,Seattle,Washington,Y

TC Begins: 02:08:02

TC Ends: 02:08:53

Duration: 00:00:51

Titles. 02:08:09 Post Office workers unload bags from mail truck into Pan American carts. 02:08:13 Large number of pilots & air crew at microphones w/ ??. CU Air Mail labels on bags. 02;08:19 Mayor LaGuardia shake hands w/ pilot piloting first mail to Europe. 02:08:20 Crew boarding amphibious clipper airplane. MS & LS taking off. 02:08:34 Title: Seattle, Washington 02:08:37 Men in front of four-engine Boeing 307 Stratoliner commercial airplane parked in front of hillside at Boeing airfield. CU nose of plane, motors starting & plane taxiing, taking off past camera & away. GOOD CU. Flight Testing; 1939; Commercial Airlines; Communication: Letters; Transatlantic; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2;

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