Early
Flight- royalty-free footage in our collection
220258 B/W 15:15:57 – 15:20:51
[Various
aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Headline re Wright Flight. Horse pulling Wright Brothers plane out. Hauling up the launching weight.Dropping
weight. People at early
airshow. Hillside takeoff of
Wright brothers glider. Wilbur
Wright flies over. Wing walking
with good CU. Bomb test on USS
Alabama, 9/21. Loading bomb on
plane; dropping; seen from air.
Phosphorus bomb explosion; 2,000 lb bombs. Hulk of ship.
Biplane off carrier.
Dropping bomb & sinking Alabama. Biplane out of hanger.
MCU of Wright Brother. Twin
motor bi-plane started & flown.
POV on plane. Starting
pusher prop. Woman out of plane,
puts on coat. POV in biplane w/
guns. First airmail. POV in early blimp. Bombing run over ship. Amphibious sea planes Catalinas flying
boats. POV looking back take off
of carrier. Gag of pedal plane
& ramp. Early ultra-light.
inc.
[Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc] Early Flight
220258 B/W 15:20:52 – 15:22:30
[Various
aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc]
Men with twin prop, safety experiment, airplane. Rocket airmail attempt. Man on bike with rocket attached. Falls in cloud of smoke. Men load big helicopter. Gyro-plane lands & takes off. First Sikorsky helicopter
demonstrated. Round wing plane on
ground & in flight. Man runs with
wings & is pulled on field.
Falls. Kids with model
airplanes walk toward camera.
Various aviation Stunts, Bombing, etc early flight
220337 1976 Colour 01:36:41 – 01:41:36
Wright
Patterson Air Force Base Ohio - Museum
Pre-Titles tease
01.37.37 Wright Patterson Air Force Base Ohio. Aircraft graveyard - rusting
planes. Restoration shops. Museum - Old planes run by bicycle chains - early
flight aircraft - mono and bi-planes. WWII aircraft - nose art “
Strawberry Bitch “ - arty shots show detail of planes. Modern planes, one
with NASA insignia.
220466 1920s
? B/W 02:00:05 – 02:01:49
Scenes
From Conquest of the Air
Short scenes early flight, very early air power show., single motor bi-planes.
Man with huge cardboard wings strapped to his back jumps off rock and falls on
his face. Various early flight aerial contraptions are tried out with amusing
results / accidents.
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501-116 1914 b/w 05:12:00
– 05:15:40
Early
Flight
First moving pictures of Chicago from the air - aerial views
Harold McCormick, Jr and Aviator Witmer getting aircraft and camera ready .
Sea-plane takes off - bi-plane in flight.
05.12.53 The Coast line - buildings - industry. Shots through wires of plane
wings as travels along coastline.
05.14.45 AVs City of Chicago - fairly low over buildings. Sign on roof Boston
Store - smoking chimneys / pollution
05.15.34 Bi-plane chasing car on
track.
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501-116 1903
- 1909 b/w 05:17:40
– 05:20:30
Early
Flight - Wright Brothers
Wilbur ? Wright attaching wheel to aircraft. Still of plane flown by Orville
Wright in 1903.
05.18.24 Wilbur Wright in 1908 makes first flight in Europe flying under French
Government subsidy. CS two men
pulling props through on the Wright aircraft in France. Frenchmen stand
watching as Wilbur Wright makes adjustments on the aircraft engines--launching
tower to right of the scene.
Wright plane being launched by catapult in France.
05.18.32 stands showing VIP's male
and female, and military attending the air show. CS Wright plane passing overhead.
05.18.48 The same year Orville Wright won the 30,000 US dollar army prize at
Fort Myers Va. for sustained flight with a passenger. CS Orville Wright and Lt.
Lahn sitting in control section of the plane. Wright aircraft being launched by catapult launching track
at Ft. Myers, headquarter building in b/g. Wright plane in flight at Fort Myers, spectators watching
the meet. CS army personnel moving the Wright flyer across open terrain.
05.19.40 MS removing hangar doors from storage building. MS army personnel
grouped around the Wright aircraft. CS of VIP's at Fort Myers standing near the
hangar building; President Taft among the spectators. MS Pres. Taft walking into group of spectators.
LN
501-116 1924 b/w 05:20:40
– 05:35:08
Early
Flight - Section from Round the World Flight
Plane lifted by crane into
water - bi-plane moving
around on water
05.23.43 Pilots pose in group in front of plane with Air Service USA insignia.
Pilots shaking hands with British? pilots. Plane on lake
05.24.56 Unidentified country - pilot congratulated. Wheels removed from
aircraft and replaced by pontoons. Flag presented to pilot
05.28.50 Planes on airfield. Group of young ladies prepare picnic tea for
aviators. Tea and cakes. Pilot shows girls on plane insignia which is a map
where they have flown.
05.30.43 Bi-plane landing - foggy ? Pilots get mail . Other planes landing
05.33.41 Engine repairs
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501-116 1908
- 1915 b/w 05:35:21
0 05:51:47
Early
Flight - Pre World War One Air Force Outtakes
Orville Wright & Lieut
Foulois prepare to make first
cross country flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria VA. they climb into seat of
plane. MS Men aboard plane.
1909 Wilbur Wrights aircraft demonstrated in 1909 to King of Italy. Plane,
which is moving down a rail, it takes off, bounces. CU Italian officials watch
as it flies past group Plane leaves rail, is airborne over flat field as first
motion pictures are taken from air plane (various air-to ground views taken
from aircraft while in flight). 05.37.29 CU Tail section of Heni Farman’s flying machine; Pan, to
right, three men around plane (scene taken in 1908).
05.37.42 Farman pours gasoline into tank from small can. Plane taxis for
take-off. Plane in flight over
France during demonstration in 1908.
05.38.30 Louis Bleriot, French
aviator, first man to successfully fly English channel, seated in one of his
planes, preparing to put it in flight; man, FG, spins propeller. Man watches plane take off - out of
frame.
05.39. 15 Glen Curtiss seated at plane controls in 1909 as he prepares to give
demonstration at Rheims, France. Man spins propeller to start plane - takes
off; men run past cameras. Biplane in flight close to ground (done during early
days for safety).
05.40.13 Scene taken in 1915 at Panama-Pacific Exposition; biplane stunting
over heads of large crowd.
CU Lincoln Beachey , first stunt man (killed while
"looping-the-loop" at exposition); he is shown adjusting his helmet.
AtoA MS Stunt man standing on
right wing of biplane, in flight; camera plane moves close. CU Stunt man hangs from loop under
right wing of biplane in flight approximately 1000 feet off ground. Jersey Ringel painted on plane.
More examples of early aircraft.
05.42.00 Mitchell Tests of
aircraft bombing on battleships
MLS 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? AtoA MLS Plane lays smoke
curtain;
05.44.11 AtoG MS Bomb hit made on
after part of USS New Jersey
(1920’s); water shot high, enveloping ship - keel as ship flips
completely over
05.45.24 MS USS Virginia takes
direct bomb hit on after part; hit tumbles mainmast, ship enveloped in black
smcke.Ship sinking; portion of bow as it plunges below surface
MLS Wilbur Wright during demonstration at LeMans, France, August 1908, MCU
French dignitaries in stands, watch - various Wright aircraft.
LN 501-116 1903
- 1929 b/w 06:02:25
– 06:14:32
History
of Aviation - Early flight
On October 19th, 1929 The Dox carried 169 Passengers on a single flight
MS of German aircraft DOX taxiing upon water, plane is twelve-propeller driven
on six engine nacelles (pull and pusher type props).Interior of aircraft
showing news cameraman taking pictures of people on maiden flight. The take off
and landing.
06.03.18 Nov 18th 1908 , Wilbur
Wight at Le Mans, France, made a World altitude record by rising 360 ft. Note
the balloons to determine altitude. Head on view of Wright aircraft in flight,
three balloons in bg used to determine altitude of the aircraft.
Title - Little did he dream that man would reach an altitude of 8 miles in
heavier than air aircraft where the temperature is always around 76 degrees
below zero. AV of high snow-capped mountain peak, camera aircraft flies
directly over same. AV high snow-covered mountains with pine trees.
06.04.10 The first air corp was born in Feb 1908 when the US army contracted
for a Wright airplane to stay in the air for one hour and fly at speed of 40
mph. Lt. Foulois and Lt. Selfridge were detailed to aviation duty, MS soldiers moving the Wright aircraft
out of hangar building.
06.04.44 Lt Lahm and Orville Wright set the Worlds endurance record for one
hour 12 minutes and forty seconds. MS Lt. Lahm sitting at controls, Orville
Wright making final preparation prior to take off. Orville Wright getting into
control section of plane. Wright
Flyer taking off from Fort Myer; headquarters building in b/g. Wright plane in
flight at Fort Myer.
06.05.28 Lt Foulois and Orville
Wright make the first cross country flight from Fort Myer to Alexander VA. and
return. CS Orville Wright, Lt. Foulois and another worker standing near the
control section of the aircraft. Foulois gets into cockpit, Wright makes
adjustment upon aircraft motor. MS
starting of the engine. Orville Wright and Lt. Foulois before take off sitting
in the plane.
06.06.05 Among the most successful competitors of the Wrights was Henry Farman.
Shots Farmans machine as it looked in 1908. Farman filled his tank with a few gallons from a can. He
made a flight at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1908
06.06.43 Louis Bleriot, distinguished French aviator and the first man to
successfully fly the Channel. Shots Bleriot piloting one of his planes.
06.07.11 Wrights learn to fly by
gliding. Shots motorless glider in Germany - launching
glider from hillside
In 1903, MS still photo--Wright
brothers aircraft in flight, pilot in prone position while piloting same.
France, August 19O8 launching of the Wright Brothers aircraft in France showing
launching tower, weight dropping, aircraft taking off. Spectators in stands
watching the air show. CU
headlines of New York paper proclaiming Wrights flight in France. Wilbur Wright
, Adjusting aircraft wheel CS
placing the wheel beneath the wing and attaching same by means of strap. LS
horse and two-wheel cart to which rope is attached pulling the Wright aircraft
across the airfield in France.
Continued
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501-116 1903
- 1929 b/w 06:02:25
– 06:14:32
History
of Aviation - Early flight - Continued
06.09.09 Cranking the 24 hp motor of the Wright Brothers airplane. MS two men pulling props through on the
Wright aircraft, Wilbur Wright in bg making adjustments upon aircraft motor.
Early Wright machines started from a rail and landed on a skid. After 1904 the
were catapulted by means of a falling weight. MS men checking the launching rail. Moving the Wright
aircraft into position on the launching rail. Men pulling the weight up into
the top of the launching tower.
The Wright demonstration in France in 1908 Spectators attending the demonstration, male and female,
military and civilian.
Oct 3td 1908 Wilbur Wright goes up with French journalist remaining aloft for
55 minutes and 37 seconds. The Worlds endurance record with a passenger. CS
headlines proclaiming event. CS Wilbur Wright and the French journalist getting
into the aircraft. Launching and in flight Pressmen standing on the airfield,
ducking as aircraft flies overhead. Head on view, Wright aircraft passing
overhead.
06.11.29 Louis Bleriot piloting one of his planes. CS Bleriot sitting at controls of his aircraft, man pulls
props through on same. Bleriot aircraft starting for take off, flies just a few
feet off ground.
06.11.41 While the Wrights were daily astonishing the world, another flier came
to the fore - Glenn H. Curtiss, another american pioneer of aviation at Rheims,
France 1909 CS of Glenn Curtiss sitting at controls of his first aircraft.
Curtiss aircraft starting for take off--view obstructed by men in fg.
06.12.11 In the early days of aviation pilots flew close to the ground for
safety purposes.
LS of the Wright aircraft in
flight, low level.
06.12.28 Here is the famous Lincoln Beachey, the first man to stunt an
airplane, he was killed while looping the loop at the Panama Pacific Exposition
in 1951. MS head on view of Lincoln Beachey stunting a Curtiss model aircraft,
flying same down low over road--crowd along fence watching same. CU of Lincoln
Beachey adjusting crash helmet.
06.13.00 Dare devil stunting - AV stuntman standing on wing of aircraft,
'Jersey Ringling" written on side of same. Stuntman switching planes in
flight, grabbing hold of bar attachment on bottom of wing, hanging from same
after switching plane by leg and hand only--releases hand hold and swings by
legs.
06.13.16 Early model type aircraft showing rotor attachment between each wing.
Plane does not successfully take off.
Orville Wright, the first man to fly a heavier than air machine, survived his
brother and lived to see his dream become reality. CU of Orville Wright standing on boat deck, water in bg.
Wilbur Wright, Born 1867 Died 1912. CS of Wilbur Wright and two Frenchmen
standing on airfield.
What the Wrights left to posterity - Head on view, formation of ten early model twin-engine
bombers.
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501-116 1902
- 1929 b/w 06:14:50
– 06:19:34
Highlights
of 32 Years of Flight - Early flight
1902 The glider in which the Wright Brothers used the wing warping method for
balance
1903 The first flight was made by Orville Wright - still of plane
1908 Wilbur Wright in France - newspaper headlines - Wright adjusting wheel of
plane - LS horse and two-wheel cart to which rope is attached pulling the
Wright aircraft across the airfield in France. Cranking the 24 hp motor of the
Wright Brothers airplane. MS two
men pulling props through on the Wright aircraft, Wilbur Wright in bg making
adjustments upon aircraft motor.
Early Wright machines started from a rail and landed on a skid. After 1904 the
were catapulted by means of a falling weight. MS men checking the launching rail. Moving the Wright
aircraft into position on the launching rail. Men pulling the weight up into
the top of the launching tower.
The Wright demonstration in France in 1908 Spectators attending the demonstration, male and female,
military and civilian.
06.17.26 Hauling up the weight that catapulted the plane from the rail. Start
of the flight Aug. 8th 1908,
flight lasted 1 min 46 secs.
06.18.17 Oct 3td 1908 Wilbur Wright goes up with French journalist remaining
aloft for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. The Worlds endurance record with a
passenger. CS headlines proclaiming event. CS Wilbur Wright and the French
journalist getting into the aircraft. Launching and in flight Pressmen standing
on the airfield, ducking as aircraft flies overhead. Head on view, Wright
aircraft passing overhead.
06.19.18 On October 19th, 1929 The Dox carried 169 Passengers on a single
flight
MS of German aircraft DOX taxiing upon water, plane is twelve-propeller driven
on six engine nacelles (pull and pusher type props).Interior of aircraft
showing news cameraman taking pictures of people on maiden flight. See previous
item for better shots DOX
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501-116 1928 b/w 06:19:40
– 06:32:09
Early
Flight - Wright Brothers Various news clippings showing honours bestowed on the
Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft.
A Feature of the two day event was the presentation to the Wright Brothers of
medals from the Governor, the State and the City. Governor Harmon presenting
the state medal.
Still photo of Governor Harmon standing at base of large grandstand with
spectators.
06.20.11 Dedication of Wright
Field at Dayton. Coverage of the flag raising ceremonies showing Mr. Wright
pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the mast. Event attended by various
military and civil leaders. Firing cannon salute at the ceremony.
06.20.56 L to R Orville Wright, Gen. Gilmore and Col. Deeds, chairman of the
dedication ceremonies, standing on the platform. Following this the delegates
went to Washington to attend a conference, some were transported in Col. Deeds
private plane the King Bird.
Various members of the party, en route to conference at Washington,
D.C., getting into Col. Deeds' aircraft. "The King Bird" taxiing
resembles the Fort Stoudt C-3 aircraft. Delegates standing in front of large
building in Washington. Orville Wright in whose honor conference is held with
delegates
06.22.30 Dedication of memorial to Wright Brothers, Kill Devil Hill, North
Carolina . LS looking down from Kill Devil Hill showing throngs of spectators
walking up along the hill.
Governor Maclean greets Orville Wright. Orville Wright unveiling the memorial
plaque. Crowd standing around, military and civilian one person opens a coop of
birds that fly towards camera. Orville Wright standing next to memorial plaque.
Inscription on plaque.
06.23.22 35th Anniversary of the first flight Dec. 17th 1938 in the NCR auditorium under the
auspices of the Aviation Committee of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. Int.
taken from stage looking at auditorium, all seats occupied. CS of Col. Deeds,
Henry Ford, Orville Wright and Charles F. Kettering sitting on stage. CS still
photograph of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
06.24.10 The pioneer flights of the Wright plane. Flying demonstration given by
Wilbur Wight at Le Mans 20 years ago. Horse pulling the Wright brothers' plane
out across open field. Spectators stand showing various high officials in the
French government. CS mechanics preparing the plane for launching. Catapault
device being erected upon the field. Wright brothers aircraft being placed upon
the launching rail. CS of the stand showing the spectators. Men pulling the
heavy weight catapault device up for dropping - dropping of weight and
launch 06.26.41 Coolidge opens
Great World air conference in Washington celebrating 25th anniversary of mans
conquest of the air. Crowd of delegates in front of building. President
Coolidge and his secretary standing on steps of building. Notable group: Asst.
Secretary of War, Davison; Col. Lindorf; H.P. Guggenheim; Asst. Secretary of
Navy, Warner. CU of Clarence Chamberlin. Delegates from Venezuela . CU of Lady
Heath, noted English aviatrix.
Orville Wright, honored guest at conference, standing amidst group of
delegates. CU of Whiting, Sec. of Commerce, and Orville Wright. Continued
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501-116 1928 b/w 06.19.40
- 06.32.09
Early
Flight - Wright Brothers Various news clippings showing honours bestowed on the
Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft.
06.27.11 At Kitty Hawk, N.C. The Wright Bothers made their first flight 25
years ago
CS coverage of Wright brothers' plane being assembled by mechanics and prepared
for flight. Wright sitting in cockpit
with another person. Launching by means of catapult. Camera pans across with
the Wright aircraft (Scenes in France).
06.28.02 First use of airplanes in National Defence. Formation of early model
aircraft, approximately 15,
Bi-wing planes. Unable to identify. IIn the Navy - Several shots of the
early model aircraft taking off from aircraft carrier - bi-planes. Aerial shot
showing the aircraft carrier underway. Early models taking off.
06.28.21 Lindbergh flight from New York to Paris CS of Colonel Lindbergh, none
in flight.
06.28.32 High Angle shot looking down at civilian aircraft, early model
transport planes, showing passengers walking up ramp into aircraft (Imperial
airways Condor, C-30 aircraft). MLS mail trucks in center of airfield. Aircraft
parked in circle around the mail trucks. Several shots of unloading the mail
into various types of early model aircraft. On side of truck is "Air Mail
Service". Fairchild C-8 type
aircraft. Name on side of airplane is Nat. US Mail Express. Shows aircraft stationary
and then taxiing. C-8 approach for
takeoff. Takes off directly over top of cameraman. ADS early model air mail
aircraft in flight over large city.
06.29.06 Orville Wright, the
"man who started it all". MS Orville Wright standing on steps of building
with three small boys standing in front of him holding model aircraft.
06.29.34 title - 25TH Air birthday, Dayton, Ohio. CS of Orville Wright standing
on steps of building playing with model aircraft with his three nephews. CS of
one of the nephews holding medal which is enclosed in small case. Title - World Pays Tribute to Wright
Bros. Dayton Ohio, Airmen join in international memorial on 25th birthday of
first flight. MS looking at line of early model aircraft on exhibit. CS camera
pans across from tail to nose of model of first Wright plane. Two men sitting
at controls of the aircraft.
06.30.35 Title Hail Wrights as aviation forges on - Wright
brothers' home in Dayton, Ohio -
Orville Wright flanked by Army, Navy and civilian representatives. Memorial
ceremony in cemetery in honor of Wilbur Wright showing various dignitaries
walking up to the tombstone. Several street scenes of early Dayton showing also
Wrights' home and bicycle shop. CS model of the Wright brothers first aircraft
on small stand. CS of engine of
the first Wright aircraft.
06.31.16 WASHINGTON, D.C.
(PARAM0UNT NEWS). CS of G-2 autogyro stationary. CU of pilot sitting at cockpit
of the autogyro. Several pan shots of autogyro aircraft demonstration showing
takeoff, flight and landing. Good
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501-134 1910s
& 1920s b/w 06:22:58 –
06:29;44
[Early
Aviation / Flight ]
Wright Brothers & various European aviators. Variety of amphibious take-offs & landings. CU's of various aviators. Men in arctic coats. Good Lindbergh landing in US--probably
at Teeterboro. Lindbergh in
cockpit & take-off into fog.
In air. Night at Paris
arrival. Various balcony, ticker
tape & harbor shots. Various
shots of various early planes. Box
like, curved wings. (French
narration) 3 men in plane with 30 on tail. Woman aviator.
220342 1908
- 1980s col 06:51:49
– 06:56:26
Air
Force Now - Ejector Seats
Montage early flight including birth of US Air Corps and early plane crashing
into wall - early use of parachutes
06.52.32 WWII Night shots air to ground
searchlights - plane flying through Anti-aircraft fire - crew abandons aircraft
as catches on fire. Parachutes coming down through searchlights. Plane crashes
in flames ( staged
06.53.08 Ejector seat used - various sequences including plane crashing in
flames after pilot has ejected.
USAF students in classroom learning about new state of the art ejection seat.
Instructor to camera intercut with students - shots aircraft in trouble -
manufacture of parachute assembly.
Shot from cockpit of ejector seat being launched. Intercut shots of
parachute preparation with pilot after ejection. Parachute deployed.
Woman USAF to camera re training and confidence in the parachutes she has
packed.
More
Modern planes
220339 1980s col 03:24:44
– 03:30:17
Euro -
NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Programme ( ENJET)
Pilots seated at training consoles - Belgian pilot to camera - testing ejector
seat. Pilots looking over US Airforce jets. Concept of the training is to offer
interoperability. Col. William Phillips commander speaks over shots of
training. Lt. Dave Watt member of the under graduate training class speaks over
shots of pilots in flight simulator and in cockpit of aircraft. Training in
flight simulator - parachute landing. 03.28.56 Jets take off and in flight
including cockpit shots and air to air formation flying.
220346 1970s col 10:19:15
– 10:23.22
Air
Force Now - Aircraft Modification
- 49 / 50th Test Wing
10.19.36 Split screen early attempts at flight - test planes in flight. Early interior factory - lathes - modification centre at AFB which
houses 25 different trades. Engineering - design - split screen modified aircraft. C-135 in flight. Interior
aircraft which is crammed with SATCOM
scientists and technicians.
Test director of satellite communications to camera - using computers.
10.21.53 Orion aircraft in flight ( nimrod ? ) Split screen showing interiors
with technicians working on computers etc. Pilot in cockpit to camera. Plane
landing
220342 1970s
col 06:01:07
– 06:08:50
Forecast
- Air Force of the Future -
Scratch at head.
Scientist with robot - Montage of aircraft / missiles /
rockets / space shuttle. Design and technology. Computer / control room. Design of planes on computers.
06.05.70 Test Pilot trying new
cockpit simulator. Facility which tests electronic warfare techniques. Talks re
smart skins - jets in flight.
Pilot in cockpit simulator wearing special helmet
06.07.40 Sign Do not Enter laser technology. Air force labs working on various projects. Machinery - technology.
Artists concept drawings.
220338 1970
? Colour 02:41:00 – 02:45:44
William Tell Competition of Air Force Teams - to highlight capabilities of the
best of the best ala Top Gun
Scenic shots sunrise - Jet lands. Sign Tyndall Air Force Base - various planes
taxiing. Officer saying what competitions will take place. Aerial shots planes
on tarmac. Teams arriving - cleaning planes - ground crews - missiles loaded.
Fighter planes take off - radar - split screen - target missiles fired,
tracking on screen - fighter kills missile.
220423 1985 col 17:19:00
– 17:25.54
Advancing
Technology in Maintenance
F-16 Fighting Falcon jet aircraft in flight performing acrobatics.
17.19.42 Maintenance ground crews working - Ground crews working at night and in pouring rain.
17.20.44 Dave Wright - deputy commander of maintenance for 363rd fighter wing
at Shaw AFB. Crew chief checking
plane before flight. Plane taxis. Technician and pilot looking at video made
during flight. Maintenance worker.
Computerised test bench - repairing component. Maintenance working on engine in hangar. Testing engine - flames . Fighter takes
off at night.
220423 1988 col 17:34:17
– 17:41:20
Your
Air Force
Montage various aircraft in flight including jets - fighters - bombers -
transport - B1-B bomber
1970’s Jet aircraft taxiing. Maintenance crews - ground crews. ( lack of funding )
17.35.59 1988 - montage modern aircraft. Aircrew scramble in training
exercise. Russian bomber ? in flight - US jets escorting
him - pilot takes photograph out of window. Newsreaders
reporting on the interception of Russian bomber off Alaska. US fighters
escorting USSR bomber. USAF F-15
? jets take off.
Air to ground missiles launched - explosions.
Surface
to Air (SAM ) missiles launched.
Captain Paul Smith to camera re need to maintain air superiority. Rear view as jets take off. F-15 in
flight and manoeuvering. Cockpit shots. Missile launched from plane. F-16 take off - cockpit - dropping
bombs.
Steam engines
220573 1898 b/w 01:03:00 –
01:03:54
Freight
Train c. 10 May 98
Steam
train with two engines emerges from a tunnel smoking heavily and passes in front of camera, pulling approx.
twenty freight cars with signs on
each car which read “Special train, HOPS, Sunset Route”. A another locomotive at the back pushes
the boxcars. Smoke keeps pouring out of the tunnel after train has gone by.
220011 1899
- 1910 B/W 00.04:30 – 00:06:56
Early
New York Scenes
Street scenes - trams - sign on one “ Greene & Gates Avs “ -
horse drawn carriages. Another tram “ Fulton Street “ Tram terminus. Overhead railway.
00.05.30 RR platform - passengers entering. Train up and past - reversing steam
engine. Train leaving station. Train pulling into station
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050-012 1901 b/w 08:22:09 – 08:23:53
Montreal Fire Department On Runners
Wide snow - covered street, horses gallop, pulling sleighs carrying fire
department equipment. Personnel trucks, hook-and-ladder wagons, pumper engines,
boilers, etc. Some vehicles are steaming.
220351 1930s b/w 01:15:30 –
01:43:15
Wheels a Rolling - A Pageant / Play with music. Probably for Chicago
World’s Fair. Slightly surreal as historical pageant is acted out in
front of large concrete blocks.
Short sequence showing train transportation.
Pageant showing history of transportation - Starts with American Indian in head
dress singing - smoke signals -
Indians walking along with horses, carrying canoes. Re-enactment of
missionaries reaching Lake Michigan. Various steam engines in pageant - George Stephenson’s Rocket
steam engine - Steam Engine The John Bull. First railway train - the Best
Friend of Charleston - built 1829 -
passengers in period clothes. Dewitt Clinton engine - carriages are
stage coaches on rails.
01.21.07 Tom Thumb engine ( 1821) designed by Peter Cooper. Race between Tom
Thumb and horse drawn coach. Horse wins. The Atlantic Engine ( 1832 ) last of
the upright steam engines. Gag as guard helps woman into coach showing bloomers - “ Early 1840’s “
firemen and citizens using water pump as they fear Chicago about to be engulfed
by fire - turns out to be smoke from Baldwin built locomotive The Pioneer. Train passes slowly,
waving people. “ 1849 “ and the Gold rush - covered wagons and horses
recreate trek West includes death on the trail. “ 1859 “ Wells
Fargo coach and horses - pony express - recreation on coach being held up .
“ 1861 “ “
Abraham Lincoln” speaking on
leaving Chicago gets into horse and carriage.
01.29.50 American civil war - shots of injured soldiers limping along. Train bringing
body of Lincoln moves slowly. “ 1856 “ representation of RR going
west - Cowboy and Indian fights. “ 1869 “ Last rail link across America - Golden spike hammered in as Union Pacific line is
completed.
01.33.06 Steam engine and train of the Santa Fe Railway - refreshment provisions include
the “Harvey Girls”
dressed as waitresses sing Beautiful Dreamer . Frontier town cowboys -
Can Can girls. Minnetonka Steam engine and train. 01.35.10 Farmers and wives on
hay wagon - train of the Burlington Line bringing farmers and immigrants to Mid
West. Dancing - Hoe down - folk dancing. 01.38.03 “ 1890’s “
Horse cars and trams - cable car. Horse drawn fire engines speeds past. Early
bicycles and tandems. Dancing fashion show. Famous 999 steam engine - series of shots showing early forms
of transport - cars - automobiles - gag policeman with drunk. Racing car - fire
engine - more gags with policeman and drunk. “ 1934” Diesel engine
passenger service. Cast of pageant
make map of American showing advancement of transportation. Diesel train along
track.
220452 1923 b/w 22:13:11 –
22:31.44
A trip on the Detroit... Railroad
Includes many shots of rail industry.
Steam train stops at station in
town, passengers out, train
departs. Man walks with
wheelbarrow at station. Passengers on platform waiting. At station locomotive
pulls carriages full of coal marked Ford, men hang on side of carriages.
Platform attendant family (?): man in overalls and cap with two women and child
on swing. Same women and child in
front of house with chicken. Locomotive changing track into warehouse.
In workshop train hanging, wheels only visible as workers carry out repairs
underneath it. Fixing wheels. Views of machinery. Workers wheeling out wheels
from large stock outside into workshop. General views around station, smoke out of chimney.
Train stops at small station by road.
Pan station and general views with train carriages parked, smoking chimneys,
rail tracks, water tank industrial landscape.
Approaching steam train with white smoke. Men push custom-built car?
Front of Post office, Wellston. Town square with cannon and bullet sculpture,
horse and cart walk past. Family in Sunday best pose for camera on porch, 3
men, 3 women 4 children one baby. CU man.
Painting stencil on train carriage “DT&I”. Pan intersection
with city hall or church (?).
Factory in countryside landscape, smoking chimneys. track from train past small
stations. Filling train with water and coal. Train repair or manufacturing in workshop? (very dark), train hangs
in mid-air.
Tracking shot from train through flat landscape, small stations, cars and
horse-drawn carriage, buildings, timber stashed, other steam trains, telegraph
poles. Various views stations and around tracks. Some good shots steam trains. Through bridge metal
structure.
220538 1897 b/w 10:32:40 –
10:33:07
Fast
Mail, Northern Pacific R.R.
copyright 06.12.1897
Edison
Steam locomotive approaches pulling baggage car and six passenger cars, obscuring a sign
reading ‘Fast Mail, Northern Pacific”. Bystanders wave.
Early
Cars
220564 1914 b/w 11:05:13 –
11:06:31
[Early
Model Fords]
1905 Model N by roadside w/ man checking radiator. Sets timing, cranks, polishes light, gets in, lowers goggles
& drives off. Car Down rough
gravel road, gets out & removes log.
Drives past camera. Model -
T touring car past & onto highway.
220259 1903
- 1907 b/w 13:20:50
– 13:30:38
Assy of
Model T, wheels. 1903 Model A w/ 4
men, drives off. 1903 drive in town; parked w/ 1904. Ford's orig. Bagley Ave
shop. Desert cut; sleigh & ford; Tioga Pass. Mt. Lodge. Highland Park w/
traffic, trollies. Model T in snow to house. Different Model T-s driven & parked in front house. Tropics & Florida. Snow & large sedans. on RR track. Mt. Road. Down embankment. On race track; parade of tractors. Race
cars past grandstand; start & finish of race on dirt. Truck up ramp; parade
of cars; of trucks.City street w/ trollies & traffics; small town. Pike's
Peak. Tourists, mts. Family & camp trailer set up. Model T's front of house.
220557 1902 b/w 02:24:04
– 02:25:48
Lower
Broadway
Busy traffic down Broadway looking toward the Battery. Crowds on the pavement
and variety of vehicles, both horse-drawn and fuel-powered: streetcars,
carriages and cars. A horse-drawn streetcar passes in front of the camera.
220454 1900s
- 1920s b/w 00:46:00 –
00:55:46
Challenge
of Change
Deals with social change from 1900 through World War One and after.
Military parade on wide avenue, top shot, people on roofs watch, Taft in office signs document (1915). Wide,
busy street w/ traffic, horse-drawn carriages, buses, pedestrians. Other busy
street w/ only pedestrians, v.
grainy. Street with heavy traffic of mostly horse-drawn vehicles, bus.
Title.
Ca. 1900: Women factory workers with female supervisor. Men at forge. Miners
with frontal lamp. Women factory workers clock in to work. Factory floor top
shot. Immigrants (?) off boat with luggage. Statue of Liberty. Rows of women at
work in factory. Coal workers (?).
Track on market stalls in immigrant area of city. President Wilson?
Etching soldiers shooting crowd at barricade & scenes of social upheaval.
Sign “Dept of Labor”. Man takes books out of horse-drawn carriage
into dept of Labor, carries books inside office. Photograph of Archduke
Ferdinand with wife and news headlines re assassination. Cannons fire. Headline “Lusitania sunk by
sub”, Lusitania sinking. Wilson & Headline ‘US declares
War!”. troops march in front of Capitol & headlines “Yanks are
coming!”. Soldiers out of trenches, explosions, planes, tanks.
Inside Dept of Labour office. Various factory workers and women carrying flags,
patriotic parades, crowds celebrating, sailors dance. returning soldiers on
deck of ship wave, troops disembark.
Man interviewed for job. Cotton-picking. Sewing factory. Steel works? Sports
stadium, stand full. Man hanging out of plane. Black jazz musicians. Man and
woman dancing 1920’s dance, women dancing. City with neon lights. Top of
RKO cinema? Sewing factory floor.
Elegant dancing and dining place. Women dancing with collapsing drunk men. Car
headlights, gun firing in night, man shot (too brief) Pilots into plane, takes
off. Celebration in city street, air full of confetti, young man at microphone.
CU money changing hands at bank. Riots. Dirty children in work clothes.
Manufacturing car bodies. Production lines. Cars out of garage or factory. Sports (cricket?). 10 women
in office typing. Board room meeting.
Garment factory, sewing. . CU
men workers. Stock market. Plane
landing through panel, acrobatics. Soup kitchen. People queuing out of
bank? Deserted industrial landscapes.
Track in ghetto market street with stalls. Soup kitchen, old woman
served. Poor city children jump rope. President Roosevelt swears oath. Poor
farmers family eating outside with 9 children. Offices w/ secretaries, soup
kitchens. Official party stands around man signing document at desk. Poor
farmers family on doorstep. People on porches in small town. Miners into tunnel
, superimposed titles: Social Security Act; Wage and Hour Act.
Car manufacturing. Rural poor family in makeshift house, beds outside/
superimposed title: Unemployment compensation. Labourers shovelling &
superimposed title: 8 Hour day. Dirty working children group photo &
superimposed title; Outlaw Child Labor. Exterior factory w/ smoking chimneys
& title; Wagner Act. Men in
street with ‘Strike” signs around neck. Board meeting
Mostly very brief shots. Poverty. Industrialisation. Depression
220573 1898 b/w 01:00:37
- 01:01:27
Going
Through the Tunnel
Edison
Camera on front part of the train tracks forward and shows cars moving through the switchyard, alongside some
freight cars, and into a tunnel.
Outside the tunnel, two people run off the track as the camera approaches. The
train stops to let a steam locomotive with three passenger cars through. Signal
man on the tracks. Train moves again.
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