Harbor craft launch water fountains on the arrival of Amelia Earhart. A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticker tapes being showered in the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Amelia Earhart Putnam gets out from her airplane. Crowd greets Amelia in Londonderry, Ireland as she ends her 2026-mile flight from Newfoundland. She is the first woman to ever fly alone across the ocean.
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart tests out a new laboratory airplane in Burbank,California. Amelia constructed the plane to test pilot's reactions under actual flying conditions.
Shows U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart in conversation with officials in Wilmington,California. Amelia returns from a crash after her plane in which she was attempting a flight around the world, cracked-up at the Equator.
Shows U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam surrounded by a large crowd at an airfield in Hanworth,England. Amelia walks off the airfield accompanied by the crowd. She poses with some officers and then enters a car.
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.