| 25 Years Ago Today | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1656 |
| Catalog #: | 497671 | |
| Clip Number: | 497671-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 032-016-04 | |
| Timecode: | 00:52:39 - 00:55:16 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: United States GOVERNMENT: United States, Congress LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Lindbergh, Charles TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Unusual TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Experimental TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Mail | |
| Description: | 25 Years Ago Today. Various stories. Senatorial committee investigating air mail contracts, touches off national scandal. The dramatic story of the army air corp carrying the mail. Of its heroics and bitter frustrations. And its serious losses in a unique and memorable page in history. Apparently a U.S. Senate investigation into air mail. Press photographers swarm, flashbulbs popping at man standing with right hand raised (taking oath?). Crowd outside an airplane. Eddie Rickenbacker (?) (SP?). Group of men in uniform with right hands raised, as if being sworn in or taking oath. Pilots in gear including goggles. Old U.S. Army propeller planes. Plane crash site. Photographers snap photos of 2 men, apparently Charles Lindbergh and Secretary of War Dern (?). Loading sacks onto a plane. Cargo. Inventions that look great-with a backward glance...Man demonstrates aviation invention with the name "Waterman Whatsit." Air to air shot of this contraption. Then there was the 'Dymaxion' car. A streamlined bullet that could outperform many of today's models. This is a 3-wheeled car similar to the Davis car but with two wheels in front and one wheel in back. 3-wheeled car parallel parks, drives in circles around traffic cop. | |
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