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Amelia Earhart takes off on her flight around the world. Preparations prior to the flight.

Amelia Earhart takes off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland, California in her Lockheed Electra aircraft, to begin her round-the-world flight. The runway and ramp contain small puddles of water from a recent rain shower. Aerial views from another airplane of the Lockheed Electra as it flies over the Oakland area of California. View of Oakland Bay Bridge.(These were probably shot on March 13th during their checkout flight.) In separate scenes, prior to departure, on the ground, Amelia talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063654
Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates preparing for her round-the-world flight.

Amelia Earhart Putnam with associates preparing for her round-the-world flight, at Oakland Naval Air Station, California. Her Lockheed Electra aircraft (tail number: NR 16020) taxis slowly in front of Navy hangar. Small puddles of rainwater on the ramp. Paul Mantz ducks down into cockpit of the parked airplane and then reappears again. Engines of the Lockheed Electra are started and it taxis under guidance of ground crewmen. Amelia Earhart Putnam standing in cockpit of her airplane talking with Paul Mantz, as he tightens dzuz fastener on an access panel in fuselage. Earhart, Mantz and George Putnam huddle beside the airplane.

Date: 1937, March 13
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063655
Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates prepare for her round-the-world flight, in Oakland, California.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.

Date: 1937, March 13
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063656
Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates load the Lockheed Electra with items needed for her the round-the-world flight

View of Amelia Earhart walking up the wing of her Lockheed Electra, parked in a hangar at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Oakland, California. She climbs into the cockpit. In the hangar, near the aircraft, she is seen talking with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan are seen briefly. Earhart and Mantz begin weighing each piece of equipment, while George Putnam records the weights. Mechanic Bo McKneely appears in white coverall, with "Grand Canyon Airlines" written on back. He converses with Mantz and moves to the airplane. Putnam playfully puts a tropical pith helmet on Earhart's head. Putnam brings a rubber life raft to Mantz and Earhart, who examine it. Fred Noonan joins the other three. Earhart gives Noonan a card on the end of a long pole. He reads and pockets it. (Note: The space, in the airplane, between cockpit and cabin, was so crowded with fuel tanks, etc. that Noonan was unable to reach it. So he would use the pole to pass position reports to Earhart during flight.) The four, Amelia Earhart, Paul Mantz, George Putnam, and Fred Noonan, begin placing the equipment into the aircraft cabin.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063657
Huge crowd gathers to see Amelia Earhart depart on round-the-world flight. Earhart and associates load airplane.

Large crowd watches from fenced area at U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, waiting to catch a glimpse of Amelia Earhart departing on her round-the-world flight. . Inside hanger number 3, Amelia Earhart Putnam, husband George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Paul Mantz, and Harry Manning, complete loading of the Lockheed Electra airplane, for the flight.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063658
Mayor of Boston John F. Collins, his wife and four children named the March of Dimes Family of the Year in New York.

March of Dime Family of the Year in New York. Mayor of Boston John F Collins, his wife and four children named the March of Dimes Family of the Year. John F Collins receives the certificate seated in his wheelchair (narrator states that he and three of his children were stricken during the 1955 polio epidemic). He shakes hands with an official. John Collins shows the certificate and poses for a photograph with his family.

Date: 1960, January 1
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063687