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Attempts to fly a human-powered airplane or vintage flying machine

Early attempts of aviation. Views of a man using bicycle-type pedals to power an airplane. View of the machine atop a launching ramp. Two men assist as the operator pedals and the machine moves down the ramp. The would-be airplane simply falls off the end of the ramp onto the ground. The attempt is repeated with the same results.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042058
Early and historic flight: Attempts to fly ornithopters, including Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter.

Scenes of vintage, historic, early aviation flight attempts: Men at controls of several unsuccessful ornithopter aircraft, intended to fly by flapping wings. One man rides a bicycle equipped with wings that he flaps using sticks by his handle bars. Another sits in a tub-like machine with tricycle wheels, as it "flaps" its wings. In a third scene, men assist as operator moves very large wings on a machine. Although the wings move, the machine doesn't. This large machine might be Gustav Lilienthal's ornithopter. It had a 3 horse-power motor. Location might be Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, around 1927

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042059
Man attaches wings to his body in unsuccessful attempt to fly

A man, "wearing" large fabricated wings and a tail, walks along the ground. He mounts a large rock and jumps off in an attempt to fly, but simply falls on the ground.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042060
Film 'History of Airplanes' shows early model aircraft at Professor Langley's aerodrome in United States.

Film 'History of Airplane' shows the early aircraft in United States. Early model aircraft at Professor Langley's aerodrome. Monoplane Flying machine takes off from the aerodrome. Aircraft in flight on water surface. Curtiss Pusher biplane in flight. Types of early aircraft parked on ground. Pilot seated in cockpit of aircraft. A group of men works on an early aircraft. Curtiss Aircraft stationed on field.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043551
Early 20th century street scenes in Berlin, Germany and brief shot of London Bridge in London, England

Wide view of double-decker electric street cars and open top buses on crowded streets in Berlin, Germany, early in the 20th century. Last few seconds of clip shows silhouetted view of the port of London, England, showing ships, docks, the London Bridge and man looking from stern of a boat

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1920
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044078
Early 20th Century scenes in Manhattan, New York City

Dejected, sad looking immigrant worker in slum or tenement one room flat. Still image of young Nguyen Sinh Cung, otherwise known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, and later as Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam, who lived and worked in New York City in second decade of 20th Century. New York harbor with ships and tug boats. Wide view of Statue of Liberty and then closer view with workers cleaning the face of Statue of Liberty. View of Rikers Island prison, exterior and interior of cell block. Men sitting and sleeping on park benches in Manhattan. An unkempt homeless person.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044079
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