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Aviation history; historic early flight scenes; first hand accounts from persons who knew and worked with the Wright brothers.

Views of traffic on a city street around the turn of the 20th century. A mix of horse and buggies and motorcars and bicycles. People waiting for a trolley car. Reenactment of persons using an early telephone and of early filmmakers at work with camera on motion picture film. The Wright brothers home at 7 Hawthorne Street, West Dayton, Ohio. The Wrights' former housekeeper, Carrie Grumbach, recalls December 17, 1903, a telegram arriving about the Wright brothers successful first powered flight. Glimpse of Wright brothers machine shop. Charlie Taylor, who had worked in their shop, speaks of being pleased at their accomplishment. View of the Wrights flying gliders at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Charlie Taylor describing how he machined and built the motor for the Wright brothers airplane. Glimpse of that motor or a facsimile. Men positioning the Wright brothers airplane for launching, and French citizens gathered to watch a demonstration of their airplane in France. French aviation pioneer, Henri Farman with two other men in his Voisin-Farman I airplane. They begin takeoff. Closeup of Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Other early aircraft in flight. A Wright Flyer passing over the Fort Myer drill ground in Virginia. An Army balloon in the background. Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, Frank P. Lahm, walks across the tarmac on an airport and speaks for interviewer (unseen). He speaks about the difficulty the Wright brothers had in convincing the U.S. Army of the value of their airplane. He tells that in December, 1907, Wilbur Wright was finally granted an interview with the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, which led to a contract, in 1908, with the Signal Corps. Moving imagesof Orville Wright and assistants bringing a Wright Flyer to Fort Myer, Virginia, to conduct flight trials for the Army. Views of the airplane being flown all around the area, watched by spectators. (This footage is a mix of 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and 1908 footage, taking off and flying, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.) After landing on the 9th of September, 1908, then, Lieutenant Lahm, accepts Orville Wright's offer to fly with him. Lahm climbs aboard the airplane, sits next to Orville Wright, and they are seen taking off and flying about for six minutes and forty seconds. (Lahm is the first. military officer to ever fly in an airplane.) The next scene shows the wreck of a Wright Flyer, in which Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge was killed and Orville Wright injured, on September 17, 1908.

Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068445
A pilot climbs into the cockpit of a Bleriot XI aircraft and works on its controls in the United States

A pilot wearing a 1907 uniform walks up to a Bleriot XI aircraft. The pilot climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. View from tail, up the length of the plane, toward pilot in cockpit. Close up views of the pilot as he works the tail rudder and elevator controls of the parked plane.

Date: 1957, April
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068578
A captain conducts a preflight check before getting into the cockpit of a Bleriot XI aircraft in the U.S.

Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain wearing a 1907 uniform approaches Bleriot XI aircraft. He does a preflight checking of the aircraft. He puts on a flying jacket and a parachute. He gets into the cockpit.

Date: 1957, April
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068583
The men removing debris, with shovels, from streets after flood, and are provided with food in Pennsylvania.

Floods in Pennsylvania. People walk on a street. The men removing debris, with shovels, from streets after the flood. A man points with a stick on the old high water mark from Johnstown flood in15 March 1907 and new high water mark. The cars lined up on a snow covered field. A man digging snow from the front of wheel of an old car. Men with shovels clearing snow from Johnstown streets. The men removing debris in snow fall. Water flowing on streets. Men walk on the street. Men unload food supplies from a truck. The victims stand in a line to receive food.

Date: 1937, April 26
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069586
Church and parishioners in Polish section of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1941

Film opens showing Saint Michael's Archangel Church (310 Pulaski St, Bridgeport, CT 06608, United States) in the Polish section of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Snow is seen on some church stairs. But the main entrance is cleared, and some parishioners are entering there. Many others are emerging from other exits. (The Marchlinski brothers, Joseph and Anthony, have been identified walking towards the left at TC: 00:24 through 00:27.) Various views of parishioners leaving the church. All are in winter clothes. Closeups of some as they pass the camera. View of church cornerstone displaying the date: September 2, 1907 and St. Michael Church (in Polish). Closeup of men conversing on sidewalk near the church. Most wear fedora hats. But one, who seems somewhat elderly, wears a bowler hat. Ladies and gentlemen are seen wearing hats.

Date: 1941, February
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065919
U.S. Army sentries silhouetted against the sky as they stand guard at a heavy gun emplacement in Hawaii.

U.S. Army sentries walking their respective posts near what appears to be a 16 inch gun pointed seaward. They and the gun are silhouetted against the sky. Views of a heavy gun zooming in on the front of the barrel where inscriptions read: "_ inch No.4 Ord. Dept. U.S.A. Mod of 1907 V" and "Waterford Arsenal 1910." U.S. Army artillerymen set up a heavy gun in hills of Hawaii. An armorer transports a shell to a heavy gun on a wheeled carrier. A gun crew loads and rams the shell into the gun. View from end of barrel as shell is loaded from the breech.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046028