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Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett are cheered and congratulated upon their return from the North Pole

As U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd, and pilot Floyd Bennett step from their Fokker airplane upon their return from overflight of the North Pole, they are greeted and congratulated by Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen and American Lincoln Ellsworth (who, themselves, are preparing to fly, from Spitsbergen, to the North Pole, and beyond, in the airship Norge). Members of the Byrd expedition team rush to greet the returning aviators and huddle about them expressing congratulations. They lift Byrd and Bennett up on their shoulders. Crewmen are gather and celebrate, aboard the SS Chantier, as a sailor who wouldn't shave until the mission was complete, gets his 34-day beard shaved off, as one of the sailors plays a ukulele.

Location: Spitsbergen Norway
Date: 1926, May 9
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063334
Soviet Tupolev ANT-4 aircraft departs Moscow, Russia, on flight to North Pole

Slate tells of Soviet airplane heading to the North Pole. Russian aviators and ground crew surround a parked Twin Engine Tupolev ANT-4 aircraft at an airport in Moscow. A fuel truck is parked under the left wing and a man stands on the left engine putting fuel into its gas tank from a hose. Closeup shows a triangular pennant with an anchor displayed on the nose of the airplane. Four aviators converse under the aircraft. (Officer at far right is Soviet arctic pilot Fabio Farikh, in command of this flight.). A man carries equipment toward an access ladder, past the airplane's large landing gear strut and wheel. Men carry and load supplies aboard the aircraft, through its bottom hatch. Scene shifts to some time later. The aircraft's wheels have now been replaced by large flat skis and it sits on a snow covered-ramp.View from several feet in front of the airplane as a man holding flags signals for engine start.Two men use a long pole to turn the left engine propeller. Closeup of aviators waving from atop the airplane. They start engines. The propellers blow some snow as they taxi out for take off. Closeup of Ground crew and uniformed persons watching as they depart. View of the airplane in flight overhead.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1937
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073020
Amundsen and Ellsworth wave to people as airship Norge takes off from Spitsbergen, Svalbard for a North Pole expedition.

A North Pole expedition undertaken by Captain Roald Amundsen and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. Capt. Amundsen and Ellsworth aboard USS Knut Skaaloren arrive at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. They walk back and forth on the deck of the ship. Dirigible Norge arrives for a landing. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in background. A close up of Amundsen and Ellsworth. Airship Norge being backed out of a hangar. Snow clad hills in the background. A workman works on one of the motors on the side of the airship. Amundsen and Ellsworth in the gondola of the airship. They wave to the people around the gondola. Airship Norge takes off. 'Norge' written on the airship.

Location: Spitsbergen Svalbard Norway
Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051109
Three Russian aviators, who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the US, receive official welcome in New York.

Soviet Fliers are greeted in New York. Men pose for a camera with three Russian aviators who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the U.S. The three aviators. They receive official reception at the City Hall by New York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. A large crowd at the City Hall to welcome the three aviators.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937, June 30
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070575
Admiral Richard Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen after ostensibly flying over North Pole in their Fokker F.VII

Admiral Richard E. Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen, Norway, being congratulated by other expedition members, after ostensibly making a round-trip flight to the North Pole and back, in their Fokker F.VII trimotor airplane named: " Josephine Ford."

Location: Spitzbergen Norway
Date: 1926, May
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074473
Fokker aircraft strikes a snowbank and breaks a ski in attempted takeoff during Byrd's 1926 arctic expedition to fly over the North Pole

Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd's 1926 arctic expedition to fly an airplane over the North Pole. The expedition's F-VII Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford," is seen parked on the snow at Spitsbergen, Norway. Men work to level a surface in the snow to permit takeoff. Snow and ice covered mountains in the background. The aircraft with engines running. It begins a takeoff roll, but strikes a snowbank and breaks one of its skis. Men gather near the airplane. They shovel snow from the airplane.

Location: Spitsbergen Norway
Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063328
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