Film of the Quest's return journey, 8 months after the death of SIr Ernest Shackleton at South Georgia, Antarctica (on January 3, 1922). The expedition has stopped at Ascension Island en route to Antarctica. On 4th August, the expedition's naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, together with Major C. A. Tennyson (Commandant of the Ascension Island Garrison), explores a colony of sooty terns (also known as Wideawakes).
German troops in the Soviet Union during World War 2. A German artillery division advances across a snow covered field. German vehicles and soldiers advance. SP Hummel and Wespe artillery and Nashorn Panzerjaeger fire at enemy positions. A soldier looks through binoculars. Dead Soviet soldiers and wrecked tanks on a field. A Soviet village on fire. A German StuG III Ausf.G convoy moves past it. A German Sdkfz.4 rocket launcher fires.
Ammunition being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Policemen aboard a ship as they hold guns and rifles in hands. Manhattan seen briefly in the background. Rifles, guns, pistols and revolvers on the deck. The policemen dump 4,000 guns into the ocean.
A variety of airplanes parked at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan,at the start of the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane reliability tour, AKA The National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Red, White, and blue bunting decorates the airport building. In the distance, the Clock Tower, at Greenfield Village can be seen. Some pilots start their engines. At TC: 00:40 Nancy Hopkins, the only woman pilot in the event (and her own mechanic), is seen walking toward the camera, smiling and folding a paper. At TC:00:45, Aviator Jimmy Doolittle is seen standing by the leading edge of an airplane wing, with his hand on the pitot tube. Edsel Ford and an assistant control the start of airplanes, each at a specific time. They signal each pilot to start, using a white flag. The last plane seen taking off is number 22, a Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, piloted by Nancy Hopkins.
Visitors walking about on the ramp of the Ford Airport, in Dearborn Michigan, during the 1930 Ford Commercial Reliability Tour. Many are lined up by a fence, looking at a squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit airplanes parked in the grass. Scene shifts to closer to terminal building where visitors stroll amongst a variety of planes parked on the ramp. Buildings of the Greenfield Village are seen in the background, especially the Clock Tower. In near background, the squadron of P-1 airplanes have engines running. Camera moves and focuses on those aircraft. A light plane is seen inflight overhead. One of the P-1s taxis on the ramp. Next, woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins is seen in the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, NC30V. She is wearing helmet and goggles, and appears to have just parked her airplane. Two men greet her (one wearing a cowboy hat, of sorts). She turns and smiles for the camera. Then she removes helmet and goggles and climbs down from the cockpit, to pose next to her airplane, displaying the number “22” on its fuselage. On the plane’s tail, is written,”Kittyhawk” in large letters, followed by “ Kittyhawk Flying Boat Company, New Haven, Conn.” Camera shows formations of U.S. Army P-1s in flights of three, airborne overhead. A solo stunt airplane is seen next.
1930 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford Trimotor aircraft in flight approaching the Ford Airport. Two men on the airfield. The Ford Trimotor taxiing on the airfield. A man on the airfield watching the trimotor. 'Ford' written on the side of the aircraft and number '5' written on the tail. Men getting out of the airplane and a few men standing at its door. Two women and two men pose and three men talk beside the trimotor. Woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins, steps from the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane (NC30V), and poses beside it. (The number "22" is written on the aircraft fuselage and "Kitty Hawk" on the tail.) .Men and women behind the aircraft. Another aircraft in the background.
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