Reel Number: 220606-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940s,1941,1920s,1930s
Country: USA
Location: Lakehurst, New Jersey,Montauk, New York,Pensacola, Florida,Washington, DC
TC Begins: 03:30:59
TC Ends: 03:40:11
Duration: 00:09:12
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Pre-WWII - USA, Navy & Naval Aviation: 1941 Navy Department Building & Secretary Knox; 1920s & 1930s Aircraft & ZR-3 Exterior, 1941. LS w/ Constitution Avenue traffic past Navy Department building w/ flag flying above. 03:31:47 Int. Secretary Frank Knox at desk w/ Admiral John H. Towers, Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, Artemus Gates (05Sep41 - 30Jun45), Captain Frank Beatty, Jr., Admiral Harold Stark. 03:32:27 MS Knox, Towers & Gates; MS Knox & Towers; CU Knox w/ pipe; CU Towers; CU Sec. Gates (wire rimmed glasses) talking; CU Knox & Adm. Stark. 03:34:51 CU door w frosted glass & title: Secretary of the Navy. Int. Office of Adm. Towers standing & looking at model of amphibious flying boat, twin-engine Clipper aircraft w/ Captain Ramsey & Capt. Davison (sp?) looking at aircraft model of amphibious plane. 03:35:56 Slug. 03:35:58 1920s amphibious biplanes lined up on beach w/ tents in front on shore. Docked battleship w/ biplane over. Biplane over submarine underway. 03:36:25 Flash intertitle. Sailors assembling small biplane in front of barracks as civilian men in suit watches. Put on prop. 03:36:52 Flash intertitle: Pensacola, Fla student-aviators take Pathe News cameraman for an aerial... 3 amphibious biplanes take off. 03:37:08 Flash intertitle. Biplane loaded on USS Colourado catapult. Biplane landing on aircraft carrier. 03:37:31 5 amphibious biplanes in flight, air to air. Many biplanes overhead. 03:38:16 Amphibious take off past ship. Planes superimposed over map of Pacific. 03:38:26 US Navy dirigible USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) on test flight, Montauk Long Island to Lakehurst in air & view from. Men on ground, Captain in flight. Air to air view. Approaching mooring mast on USS Patoka (AO-9), men on mooring mast guiding approaching LTA; mooring. 03:39:49 Naval airmen out of dirigible & onto mast. Los Angeles tethered to mast on USS Patokee. 03:40:05 Air to air from above of military biplane diving. Pre-WW2; 1940s; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.