Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
Europe 1927 stock footage and images
- Showing 25 to 30 of 2001 results
more
Hide
In 1927, Lieutenant Hegenberger and Lieutenant Maitland make record-breaking flight over water from California to Oahu Hawaii.
U.S Army ground crews prepare Fokker C-2 Trimotor aircraft called "Bird of Paradise." Crowd at Oakland Airport as plane takes off. Aerial views of Oakland Airport and surrounding area, as seen from aircraft over San Francisco Bay. Aircraft in flight. Aircraft lands in Hawaii less than 26 hours later. Lieutenant Alfred Hegenberger and Lieutenant Lester Maitland are greeted by large crowd in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, as they were the first aircraft ever flown from the United States to Hawaii. Leis placed around neck of Hegenberger and Maitland.
Glimpses of Big game hunting in Africa during Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy expedition in 1927
Film opens showing George Eastman and Osa Johnson with a native guide in Africa. Olsa is looking through binoculars and pointing at something. She passes the binoculars to Eastman, who also looks. Next a male lion is seen racing through deep grassland toward the camera. As he gets quite close he is shot and falls. Views of Eastman and Osa Johnson examining the fallen lion while surrounded by seated native tribesmen with with spears and shields. The tribesmen rhythmically raise and lower their spears in unison. A rhinoceros is also seen shot down as it charges. The hunting party stands around the fallen animal.
The Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition along the Nile in 1927
View of safari camels coming toward the camera. George Eastman in foreground taking pictures with hand held camera. Eastman, and other Safari members examine a camel rigged for riding and carrying supplies.Other camels similarly set up walk past in the background. Natives trying to constrain a camel that objects to being burdened and bucks to throw his load. Closeup of the camel when he settles down.
Members of Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Nile Expedition on a River Boat in 1927
George Eastman waves for the camera from the deck of the River Boat, SGS DAL. Camera pans across the superstructure of the boat to the paddle wheel turning at the stern. Next, Easton is seen relaxing with a book, as he sits on a forward deck next to Osa Johnson and another expedition member. Osa Johnson holds a pair of binoculars.
Film made during Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Nile Expedition 1927
George Eastman stands holding a still photograph camera, in front of a thatched hut displaying a large sign reading "Kodok." He motions to local African tribesmen, holding spears, to come closer and pose for him. Closeup of Eastman photographing the tribesmen. The two women in the party, Osa Johnson, wife of cinematographer, Martin Johnson, and Mrs.Carl Akeley, are carried in Sedan Chairs, of sorts, borne on shoulders of natives. The are protected from the sun by umbrellas. Next, Osa Johnson is seen, chatting with Daniel Pomeroy, George Eastman and white hunter, Philip Percival, as they stand beside a thatched shelter. Percival is smoking a pipe and Eastman holds a cigarette. They all step into the shade of the shelter. The four are next seen, dimly at a table protected by mosquito netting. Native assistants raise the netting to allow cinematographer Martin Johnson (unseen) to capture the moment on film. One of the native assistants pours Eastman a drink from a large earthenware jug. Liquor bottles are on the table.
Scenes from the Dole Derby or Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii in August, 1927
Opening scene shows several aircraft and aircrews on an Airfield in Oakland, California, readying for the Dole Air Race to Hawaii. A modified Travel Air 5000 aircraft, NX869, named "Woolaroc," is seen in the near foreground. Behind it is another Travel Air 5000, named "Oklahoma." Next, the "Oklahoma" and the "Aloha"(NX914), a Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane are seen with engines running and taxiing. The "Aloha" takes off and climbs sharply after gaining airspeed. Several Wickes-class destroyers are seen steaming underway. (Slate reports they patrol the course to be flown over the Pacific.) Scene shifts to wreckage of the "Angel of Los Angeles" a twin engine Bryant Monoplane, which crashed on a test flight at Montebello, California. (Pilot, Arthur V. Rogers, bailed out at the last minute but his parachute didn't fully open and he was killed.) Next is shown the wreckage of the "Pride of Los Angeles," an International CF-10 Triplane, after crashing into San Francisco Bay on August 11th. Pilots J. L. Giffin and Theodore S. Lundgren are seen stepping from the water, unhurt. A crane, on a barge, lifts the wreckage from the shallow water.
