Home Movies, color - Surgery; 06Jul39 Eastern Airlines Inaugural mail by Autogiro

Home Movies, color - Surgery; 06Jul39 Eastern Airlines Inaugural mail by Autogiro CU surgery w/ doctors cutting open & working in incision w/ tweezers, sutures (?) & other tools. Cutting & removing ?? Sewing up wound & completing operation. Doctors & nurses. Operating room. 01:33:29 Title: The First Air Mail Line In The World By Kellett Autogiro Operated By Eastern Air Lines. CU insignia The Great Silver Fleet - Eastern Air Lines. Poster showing routes around eastern United States. DC-3 landing; taxiing toward camera. Men loading baggage, man boards; motors started. Groundsman waves semaphores. 01:35:27 CU United States Post Office in marble above entrance. LS next to bridge or overpass, men on roof; flag, aeromotor. 01:35:51 CU of KD-1B autogyro & men & boys looking at it. Cockpit interior w/ gauges; man loading mail bags, pilot boards. 01:36:34 Title: Capt. Miller takes off from the Phila. post office roof and lands in Camden six minutes later. 01:36:45 Man starting motor & front propeller, taxiing & taking off seen from roof & ground. 01:37:34 CU Westclox Baby Ben w/ hands at 2 o’clock, time lapse to 2:06. 01:37:50 Autogiro landing & taxiis to stop, unloading mail. Replacing. Taking off. 01:38:53 Landing on post office roof seen from ground & rooftop. Pilot walks to camera. 01:39:44 Title: The End. Cierva licensed. NOTE: On 06Jul39 first scheduled autogyro mail service was inaugurated by Eastern & continued for one year, 10 flights a day from Philadelphia post office to Camden airport. It was halted because of National Emergency (pre-WWII). VERY GOOD reel for content & color.