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Burbank California USA 1930 stock footage and images

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Aviators Howard Hughes and Amy Johnson after record-setting flights to Los Angeles, California and Cape town, South Africa, respectively.

American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.

Date: 1936, May
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034143
James Doolittle and wife board airplane and set a new coast to coast air record in the United States.

U.S. aviation pioneer General James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle sets a new air record for flying a passenger airplane from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in twelve hours. Doolittle and his wife seen looking at a map. They both board the waiting aircraft, American Airlines’ Vultee V-1A Special NC13770. 'Shell' oil company symbol written on the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. Aerial view of the airplane in flight over mountains. The airplane in flight over the clouds. The airplane lands at Newark Airport and taxis on a runway. Hangars and a building in the background. Doolittle exits the airplane with his wife at and greets people waiting. They pose for pictures beside the airplane.

Date: 1935, January 15
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069438
A man examines plants at Luther Burbank Experimental farm flower garden and view of irrigated fields

The Luther Burbank Experimental farm (7781 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, CA 95472) in Sebastopol, California. A large flower garden at Luther Burbank Experimental farm. A man holds a rose. The man walks through a flower bed. He examines plants, leaves, buds and flowers. Burro stands under willow trees. View of a small stream. An observation tower on the roof of a single room building. Irrigated fields. Base of the observation tower with water running from a pipe. Mountains in the background.

Date: 1920, June 4
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072789
Hollywood landmarks and street scenes in Los Angeles County, California

Exterior view of The Golden Pagoda restaurant, later the Hop Louie restaurant in old Chinatown (950 Mei Ling Way, Los Angeles, CA 90012.) A Los Angeles storybook style home with water wheel and dwarf statue. Elevated view of old Hollywood neighborhood. Exterior view of roof of The Beverly Theatre (206 N. Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210.) A storybook style home with a "seawave" roof in Los Angeles. Exterior view of the The Prudential Insurance Company of America building, Prudential Square (5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.) Pedestrians at crosswalk with passing cars near the Santa Fe Building, also known as the William G. Kerckhoff Building (121 E. 6th Street Los Angeles, CA 90014.) Exterior detail of the California Federal Savings Building at the corner of Wilshire Blvd and Masselin Avenue with passing car. Exterior detail of the Prudential Insurance building facade. Warner Bros Studios Gate #2 Entrance, also known as Burbank Studios, at 4300 W. Olive Avenue, Burbank. Cars pass on Olive Avenue at studio entrance.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041958
Passengers board TWA Lockheed Constellation aircraft for public demonstration flight from Burbank Airport, California

A large group of men boards a Trans World Airlines Lockheed Constellation passenger aircraft at Burbank Airport in California, for a public demonstration ride. Aerial view of the flight as it is filmed from another aircraft flying over the California mountains. (Glimpses of chase plane cockpit floor are accidentally photographed as camera is lowered while still running.)

Date: 1943
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048167
Aviator Howard Hughes lands Northrop Gamma 2G in Burbank, California, setting flight speed record from Chicago to Los Angeles

Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft in final approach and landing at airstrip of Union Air Terminal in Burbank California. It is arriving from its record setting speed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, piloted by Howard Hughes. Aviator Howard Hughes emerges from cockpit and greets crew who approach plane as it taxis to a stop near terminal buildings. Howard Hughes walks away with several associates. He had flown from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California at a top speed of 215 mph, arriving in 8 hours and 10 minutes.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070378