Charles A Lindbergh (Lindy) and wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Nome, Alaska on their survey flight over the Great Circle route from New York to Tokyo, for use by commercial airlines. The Lindberghs pose in front of their Lockheed Sirius airplane, parked in the water behind them. (It is equipped with pontoons as a float plane.) Citizens of Nome are turned out to greet them. The Lindberghs cleaning up their aircraft. The couple is seen mingling among a large group of native Inuit eskimo men, women, and children, in indigenous dress, who turned out to see the famous aviator. Next, Lindbergh stands behind his wife, as she sits in the seat of a sled hitched to a team of dogs. The Lindberghs ride with the Inuit sled driver as the team of dogs pulls the sled over the frozen tundra grass. Later, they pose with three women dressed in furs. They also pose with several Inuit Eskimo women.
Views of Fairbanks, Alaska, taken by cameraman with the USAAC 1934 Alaska Flight. View of an antique steam locomotive of the Alaska Railroad displayed in front of the Fairbanks railroad station. Glimpse of an Alaskan Railroad passenger car. View from a high point above some rooftops, of waterfront. Camera pans along river, showing riverfront buildings, a steel bridge, and areas of the Fairbanks downtown.
Fairbanks Alaska as photographed by cameraman with the U.S. Army 1934 Alaska Flight. Views of private float planes parked in the water along the banks of the Tanana river, in Fairbanks, Alaska. A small covered barge loaded with 55 gallon drums has "Damfino" written on its bow. It is being pushed by a tugboat. Glimpse of a bridge over the river. Scene shifts to commercial signs in downtown Fairbanks. One reads: "Palace Bath House Open Day and Night." Signs identify the Model Cafe, Cann Studio, and John F. Lonz Furnishings. Cars are parked along the street. A drug store is seen further along the street at the approach to a steel bridge. Closeup of sign on side of a truck,reading: "Natural Milk, Bentleys Dairy." Man riding in a horse-drawn wagon, labeled "Fairbanks Garden."
Followup to the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight. The U.S. Army Air Corps Photographic department processes and assembles the 60 rolls of film shot by the USAAC 1934 Alaska Flight during its aerial photo-mapping mission over 21 thousand square miles of Alaska territory. Photographic workers mount film onto large rolls and place them into developing solutions. Long strips of film are seen drying on rotating slatted drums.Oblique negatives placed in rectifying printer are transformed into vertical photographs. Workers develop the negatives. Developed single wing photographs. Composite five lens photographs ready for mapping.
View of the new Federal Building on Courthouse Square, in Fairbanks, Alaska, where members, of the 1934 U.S. Army Air corps Alaska Flight set up an office, during their stay in Fairbanks. A flight mechanic attending to one of the YB-10 aircraft has with him, two black bear cubs on chain leashes. They cavort on the aircraft wing for the camera. Next, one bear cub is seen on the nose of the airplane. Finally, the two cubs play on a step ladder in front of an aircraft.
Film shot during the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934. View from a YB-10 aircraft flying over snowy mountains in Alaska. Perspective of the cameraman inside the YB-10. Downward view of mountains covered in deep snow. Some mountains at lower elevations with streams flowing down their slopes. Cumulus clouds obscuring the ground and interfering with the photo-mapping mission for the photograpers. Cloud capped Mount McKinley (aka Denali) seen off the aircraft wing at a distance of 75 miles.
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