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Lieutenant Law and Igor Sikorsky talk about their experiences and experimental aircraft in flight in the United States.
Part of a series of films about the history of aviation in the United States.Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Frank P. Lahm is seen speaking about his aviation pioneering days, when Orville Wright taught him and Frederick E. Humphreys of Army Engineers (both Lieutenants at the time) how to fly the Wright Flyer airplane. Views of a Wright Flyer maneuvering in the air above Fort Myer, Virginia. Somewhat later, two are seen in flight at Fort Myer. An early Curtiss airplane.is maneuvered on the ground to face away from the camera. Russian, Igor Sikorsky in an early rear propeller airplane. Igor Sikorsky at a desk in a modern engineering office. Sketch of a helicopter on drawing board behind him. He talks about the early days of experimental flight in 1909 and 1910. View of Louis Bleriot sitting in the open cockpit of his airplane, and then of him flying overhead in his famous flight across the English Channel. Obeservers watching his progress through binoculars and a telescope. Sikorsky standing next to his first helicopter (which didn't fly).
Orville Wright raises a flag and dignitaries including Quincy Gillmore, Edward Andrew Deeds present in the United States.
The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first airplane flight in the United States. A picture of Ohio Governor Judson Harmon presenting a medal to the Wright brothers and people in a stadium arranged to form a flag. A flag being raised. The Wright brothers and other dignitaries surround a flag pole. Aviator Orville Wright raises a flag. A gun salute in front of Air Material building. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds present.
Pictures of the NCR Auditorium and Wright brothers, Edward Deeds, Henry Ford, Charles Kettering in the United States.
The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first airplane flight in the United States. Still photo of the NCR Auditorium filled with people. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds, aviator Orville Wright, the founder of Ford Motor Company Henry Ford and American inventor Charles Franklin Kettering present. A still photo of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Scenes related to the Ford Motor company and the Ford Model T automobile in the United States.
Ford Model T cars being driven out the exit door of the Highland Park factory, Michigan,circa 1916. Numerous Model T cars driving on both sides of a divided highway. The Ford Highland Park Plant, circa 1920. Panoramic exterior views of the Ford River Rouge plant and factory buildings, circa 1930. A Ford Freighter ship, docked at the River Rouge plant. A view of the home of Henry and Clara Ford, at 66 Edison Road (now 140) Dearborn, Michigan, in 1914. Sketch of children coming home from school, singing song from McGuffey reader school book. View of schoolroom with McGuffey readers on desk. Narrator relates story of Henry Ford trying to buy a McGuffey reader and being unable to obtain one. Narrator states that Ford realizes from this incident "the changes that are reordering his culture. The modes of life which Henry so loved are passing, disappearing into history." Street scene outside Ford Plant, during shift change, and street filled with workers. A car driving on empty road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The historic Wayside Inn (immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn") which Henry Ford purchased in 1923, to preserve for posterity. View of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, circa 1912. View of crowded sidewalks and street on 5th Avenue, and other street scenes in New York City, circa 1920. Model T Ford cars driving in U.S. National Parks. A visitor feeding a bear from his Ford car, as a U.S. National Park Ranger stands nearby. People in Ford Model T, stopped by side of road to pick wild flowers. Two men remove a seat back from their Model T car to make a camper. Both men lying down in the car. Man carrying picnic basket from Ford Model T, parked beside a beach, where he joins the rest of his party on the sand. Children run along the beach, and stop to play with seaweed.
American people working, enjoying recreational activities, and voting in the United States after World War 2
A film about contribution of the U.S. Navy personnel for better life of Americans in the United States after World War II. Scenes of former soldiers, sailors, and military personnel returning to civilian life after the end of World War 2. Men drill on metal structure erecting a new building. Men load sacks in a cart. A man works on a typewriter. People worship in churches. A couple sits on a swing. A man plays chess. People read newspaper sitting outdoors. A man fishing in a river. Men play golf. People on a sailing yacht. Paintings displayed on a wall. A statute in a garden. A man sits on his front porch, plays guitar and sings. A jazz band of African American musicians plays music including piano, drums, clarinet, bass, trumpet (playing part of song "Pop goes the Weasel."). Piano player is smoking a cigarette while playing. Audience watching an orchestra play on stage. A man speaks and presents his view to a gathering. Exteriors of a church. People walk out of the building. Children play on swings in a school playground. Children inside a house run down stairs to the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. A woman drops her completed ballot in a ballot box on voting day, as a man waits to receive his ballot. He enters a voting booth and a uniformed police officer closes the curtain behind him. View shows him marking a check box on the ballot document.
Photograph of Orville Wright honored by Judson Harmon and delegates leave after flag raising ceremony in the United States
Honors bestowed on Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft in the United States. Still photo of Governor Judson Harmon standing at base of large grandstand. Grandstand completely filled with spectators. Spectators are lined up in the stand in a formation resembling the flag. Various dignitaries sit in booths in stand with the Wright brothers. Wright Field, Dayton: The flag raising ceremony shows aviator Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises flag upon mast. Various military and civil leaders present. The flag being raised. Firing cannon salute at the ceremony. Orville Wright,General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds stand on platform. Washington DC: members of the party enroute to conference at Washington DC , members get into Colonel Deeds aircraft. 'The King Bird' taxis. Washington: Delegates stand in front of a building. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference is held. Orville Wright flanked by various delegates. (World War II period).
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