- Title: F-5702
- Summary: CAVALCADE OF AVIATION: 1903-1941 FOOTAGE OF AVIATION PIONEERS; WWII & PEARL HARBOR, PLANES, AIRPLANES. EARLY AVIATION.
- Description:00:40:35 - MS ORVILLE & WILBUR WRIGHT, FIRST AIRPLANE, FIRST FLIGHT CIRCA 1903. KITTY HAWK 00:41:01 - GLENN CURTISS IN HIS AIRPLANE, 1909 00:41:11 - HARRIET QUIMBY, AVIATRIX , FIRST WOMAN TO FLY OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 00:41:23 - 1914, PILOTS GET INTO PLANES. CU PAN PILOTS, INCLUDING EDDIE RICKENBACKER. PILOTS TAKING OFF, IN FLIGHT 00:42:30 - CU FIRST LETTER SENT BY AIR MAIL. WOODROW WILSON INITIATES AT FIRST AIR MAIL FLIGHT FROM WASHINGTON TO NEW YORK 00:42:55 - BATTLESHIP, PILOT POV, AERIAL BOMBING. AIR-SEA BATTLE, WWI. LS HUGE SMOKE CLOUDS FROM BURNING SHIPS. SINKING BATTLESHIPS. LINE OF AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES IN FORMATION. POV ON PLANE TAKING OFF AIR CRAFT CARRIER 00:44:19 - CRAZY FLYING INVENTIONS, FOOT PEDDLED PLANE COMES DOWN RAMP, CRASHES. GIZMO. 1934 BIPLANE WITH PAPER WINGS, ACTUALLY FLIES & LANDS SAFELY TWO PROPELLER PLANE. ROCKET PLANE. FLY AWAY ROCKET BIKE CRASHES BEFORE TAKE OFF. CREW COMES OVER & POURS WATER ON PILOT'S SMOKING REAR END, ASS ON FIRE. UMBRELLA PLANE ACTUALLY FLIES. MAN RUNS WITH WINGS ON HIS BACK, FALL DOWN. 00:46:20 - DR. VALENTINE NEWBAUER'S "GYROPLANE". CU MAN WITH BIZARRE "SCI-FI" HELMET, GLOVES. GIZMO PLANE. PLANE DOESN'T FLY. CU GRIZZLY LOOKING MAN 00:46:58 - AUTOGYRO PLANE LANDS, TAKES OFF 00:47:09 - FIRST SIKORSKY HELICOPTER IN FLIGHT, LANDING 00:47:25 - YOUNG MEN WITH MINIATURE PLANE INVENTIONS, MODEL PLANE MEET. GAS POWERED, GLIDER MODEL PLANES. 00:48:16 - CHARLES LINDBERGH, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS NEW YORK TO PARIS TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT. 00:48:35 - CLARENCE CHAMBERLAIN IN CRASH LANDING. PEOPLE RUN ACROSS FIELD TO MEET PLANE 00:48:59 - AERIAL STUNTMAN LEAPS FROM ONE PLANE TO ANOTHER 00:49:15 - CU WILEY POST & WILL ROGERS 00:49:23 - CU AVIATRIX AMELIA EARHART 00:49:32 - CU AVIATRIX RUTH NICHOLS & RUTH ELDER 00:49:55 - LOWELL DALES TAKES OFF, PLANE SPINS OUT OF CONTROL & CRASHES BURSTING INTO FLAMES KILLING DALES 00:50:17 - MS MONTEVERDI BROTHERS, PLANE TAKES OFF, TOO HEAVY, OVERLOADED, WING HIT THE GROUND, THEY ESCAPE UNSCATHED. FLOYD BENNETT FIELD. 00:50:43 - GIZMO PLANE "ROCKET" PLANE COMES AROUND URBAN BEND ON SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF CAPITOL DOME. BIZARRE JUXTAPOSITION. PLANE BURSTS INTO FLAMES, PEOPLE COME RUNNING 00:51:07 - AIRSHIP DIRIGIBLE AKRON DISASTER, SUDDEN SHIFT OF WIND TAKES TWO GROUND CREW UP IN THE AIR THEY FALL TO THEIR DEATH. AIR ACCIDENTS 00:51:22 - CU GENERAL DEPANADO. CU PROPELLER. OVERLOADED PLANE TAXIS, CRASHES ON THE GROUND BURSTING INTO FLAMES 00:51:43 - DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIP HINDENBURG IN FLIGHT OVER MANHATTAN NEW YORK. HINDENBURG CRASH, BURST INTO FLAMES. 00:52:34 - CU GENERAL BILLY MITCHELL, 1935. SPEAKS PROPHETICALLY ABOUT IMMINENT WAR IN EUROPE 00:53:39 - WWII WORLD WAR TWO. AMERICAN MODERN BOMBER PLANES DROPPING BOMBS 00:54:22 - DUNKERQUE, DUNKIRK WAR FOOTAGE. BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC. WWII FOOTAGE. GROUP OF PARATROOPERS DROP FROM PLANES. 00:55:48 - MS LINE OF WAR CASUALTIES. DEAD LINES UP ON THE GROUND. WOMAN MOURNS NEXT TO DEAD LOVED ONE. CU CROWD OF EUROPEANS, WOMEN WEEP INTO HANDKERCHIEFS. 00:56:10 - FDR ADDRESSES CONGRESS, "I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS NATION GEARED UP TO THE ABILITY TO TURN OUT AT LEAST 50,000 PLANES A YEAR" 00:56:30 - AVIATION RESEARCH CENTER. TESTING WAR PLANES AVIATION DEVELOPMENT. LEADERS IN THE FIELD INCLUDES HENRY FORD. GENERALS 00:57:00 - PLANT FACTORY WORKERS LEAVING FACTORY 00:57:02 - MONTAGE WAR PRODUCTION PLANTS. 00:57:29 - ARMED SOLDIERS MARCH TOWARD VIEWER 00:57:34 - FIGHTER PLANES IN FORMATION 00:57:38 - FIGHTER PILOTS IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION 00:57:45 - CU GUNNER TESTING OUT NEW GUN. CU PLACING BULLETS INTO BANDOLEER. 00:57:53 - ROW LINE OF FIGHTER PLANES, PROPELLERS TURNING, FIGHTER PLANES IN FLIGHT, TEST BOMBING. CURTISS P-40 FIGHTER PLANES. B-26 FIGHTER PLANES. WAR PLANES 00:59:12 - PARACHUTE BATTALION. PARATROOPERS DROP FROM PLANES. PLANES IN FORMATION 01:00:05 - SUBMARINE ROLLING ACROSS THE OCEAN. INTERIOR CREW AT WORK IN DEFENSE DRILL. SUBMARINE WARFARE. NAZI TORPEDO RELEASED, SEEN TRAVELING THROUGH WATER, HITS AMERICAN BATTLESHIP 01:00:20 - MONTAGE CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES U.S. SHIPS TORPEDOED, BOMBED, 01:00:31 - AMERICAN FLAG FLOATING IN THE WATER 01:00:33 - SECRETARY OF WAR HENRY STIMSON GIVES SPEECH 01:00:55 - WENDELL WILKIE GIVING SPEECH "WE WANT THOSE CARGOS PROTECTED"TO LARGE AUDIENCE 01:01:03 - CU NEUTRALITY ACT REPEALED 01:01:09 - ARMS LOADED ONTO MERCHANT SHIPS. FLEET OF SHIPS AT SEA 01:01:17 - ANIMATED MAP CHINA, INDO CHINA, JAPANESE FLAG 01:01:26 - JAPANESE TROOPS MOVING IN ON INDO CHINA EAST ASIA 01:01:37 - ANIMATED MAP OF RUSSIA, JAPANESE FLAG 01:01:44 - ANIMATED ARROWS SYMBOLIZING NAZI MOVEMENT TOWARD RUSSIA 01:01:47 - ZOOM OUT ANIMATED MAP JAPANESE CONQUEST PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 01:02:01 - ANIMATED MAP USA WITH JAPANESE KNIFE SLICING THROUGH 01:02:07 - AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANE LOW OVER WATER 01:02:12 - JAPANESE FLEET 01:02:23 - NOVEMBER 14, 1941 JAPANESE ENVOY ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO 01:02:58 - NOVEMBER, 17, 1941 JAPANESE ENVOY & AMBASSADOR GOING INTO WHITE HOUSE 01:03:14 - JAPANESE TROOPS, WWI FOOTAGE. JAPANESE FLAG 01:03:20 - NOVEMBER 26, 1941. MS SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL SPEAKING, MOS. HORDE OF REPORTERS AROUND JAPANESE ENVOY & AMBASSADOR 01:03:35 - DECEMBER 7, 1941. ON BOARD JAPANESE AIR CRAFT CARRIER. CAPTAIN GIVING ORDERS. JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES TAKE OFF CARRIER, IN FLIGHT 01:04:14 - CU CLOCK 1:00 01:04:17 - CU SECRETARY OF STATE SIGN OVER DOOR. CORDELL HULL IN MEETING. CU CLOCK 1:05. 01:04:27 - JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES APPROACHING HAWAII. 01:04:34 - CU CLOCK 1:10 CORDELL HULL PICKS UP TELEPHONE 01:04:42 - CU CLOCK 1:20 JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES EN ROUTE TO HAWAII 01:04:46 - MONTAGE QUIET PEARL HARBOR AIR BASE, FLEET MOORED. SAILORS PASSING TIME BY THROWING A BASEBALL. SOLDIERS, SAILORS LOOK UP AT THE SKY HEARING APPROACHING JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES, CAUGHT UNPREPARED. JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES DROP BOMBS, JAPANESE DEVASTATE AMERICAN OUTPOST PEARL HARBOR 01:06:35 - JAPANESE ENVOYS WALK OUT OF OFFICE 01:06:38 - SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL SPEAKS ON THE MEMORANDUM PRESENTED BY JAPANESE ENVOYS. PUTS ON PINCE NEZ GLASSES, READS QUOTES FROM MEMORANDUM 01:07:48 - PEARL HARBOR DEVASTATION HARBOR COVERED IN THICK SMOKE, SHIPS LOST, BURNING. FDR'S VOICE HEARD DECLARING WAR ON JAPAN 01:08:39 - CU AMERICAN FLAG. STATUE OF LIBERTY SUPERIMPOSED OVER FLAG. QUOTE FROM CHIEF OF STAFF MARSHALL. LIBERTY BELL. V SIGN.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1903
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1900s
- File Name: F-5702