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Wilbur Wright prepares for first public demonstration of Wright Flyer in France. A Wright Flyer in flight at Fort Myer, Virginia

A film on the development of air power of the United States. Wilbur Wright places a large wheel under a Wright Flyer Model A, so it can be towed across a field in the first public demonstration of a Wright Brothers airplane at Le Mans, France. Next, A Wright flyer is seen in flight at Fort Myer, Virginia. An Army balloon is seen aloft in the background.

Date: 1908
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051057
Theodore Roosevelt addresses a gathering in the U.S. Forestry operations influenced by Roosevelt's conservation efforts

Rise of America as a nation and President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to the cause. President Roosevelt addresses a large gathering. Narrator describes his programs for conservation of natural resources. Scenes of logging and forestry operations. Men chopping trees with axes. Timber felled. Logs in a waterway being readied for mill.

Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048140
Wilbur Wright flies Wright Model A Flyer during the first public flight demonstrations in France.

Headline of the newspaper 'New York American' reads 'Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk, Flies 2.17 miles in 106 seconds'. Pictures of the Wright Model A Flyer under the headlines. Wilbur Wright prepares the Wright Model A Flyer for flight at the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France. A horse cart pulls the plane on field. Men pull a rope connected to a launching weight held in a derrick. The plane is catapulted from the runway when the men release the weight. Spectators in a grandstand look through binoculars, among them is Louis Bleriot. View of the Wright plane in flight high above the racetrack, with Wilbur Wright seated upright at the controls.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049965
Spectators watch as mechanics prepare Wright brothers aircraft and launch it in first public exhibition at Le Mans, France

Demonstration of flying given by Wilbur Wright in Le Mans, France. A horse pulls the Wright brother's aircraft across open field. Spectators stand including various high officials in the French government. Mechanics prepare the aircraft for launching. Catapult device being erected on field. Wright brothers aircraft being placed on the launching rail. Spectators on stand. Men pull the catapult device for dropping of weight. Wright brother's aircraft being launched. The aircraft in flight.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068543
The French ship "Pourquoi Pas?" underway in Antarctica, during 2nd French Antarctic Charcot Expedition

The bow ot the French antarctic exploration vessel, "Pourquoi Pas?" is seen as it makes way in antarctic waters. Ice floes are all around. The occasion is the second French Antiarctic expedition headed by explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

Date: 1908
Duration: 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074545
French aviator Henry Farman fills up the gas tanks of his airplane before taking off in Rheims, France.

French aviator Henri Farman in Rheims, France. Henri Farman checks his airplane before a take off. He fills up the gas tanks of his airplane with a gallon of gas. His airplane takes off. Trees in the background.

Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075721