SCOURING THE SKIES!
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Year Published: 1936
Format: 16mm
Description: Made by 20th Century Fox as part of their "Adventures of the Newsreel Cameramen" series, this black & white film contains spectacular footage of early 20th Century aviation, while showcasing the newsreel cameramen who documented pilots and planes. Copyright is 1936, produced by Truman Talley and edited by Lew Lehr. Opening titles: Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman - Scouring the Skies! (:07-:43). Army maneuvers in the clouds. Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" planes are shown -- the first American production all-metal fighter aircraft and the first pursuit monoplane to enter squadron service with the United States Army Air Corps. They fly by the camera in formation. Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers are shown flying over Yosemite Valley. Stunt pilots perform a smokescreen maneuver at the Miami airport (:44-1:56). Paratroopers jump out of planes over Roosevelt Field. German pilot and aerobatic champion Gerd Achgelis is shown taking off in his Olympic biplane. The plane flies inverted at extremely low level, terrifyingly close to the ground (1:57-3:28). Pan Am China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat. The plane heads to the Pacific from San Francisco en route to the Philippines . Over Manilla, the plane is filmed as it lands in Manila Bay. (4:25) Miami, Florida, a small plane lands on the ground, and it turns out it's a radio controlled model plane being played with by children. Model airplane meet. The Burnelli UB-14, also known as the Cunliffe-Owen Clyde Clipper, is shown at (4:43). This was a 1930s prototype lifting-fuselage airliner designed and built by Vincent Burnelli. It takes off into the air and at (5:00) flies over Manhattan. At (5:09) a Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea is shown, designed by French radio engineer Henri Mignet. At (5:31) the Waterman Arrowbile is shown. This was a tailless, two-seat, single-engine, pusher configuration roadable aircraft built in the US in the late 1930s. (5:50) Kellett K-3 Autogiro commuter plane/helicopter hybrid. Auto-gyro goes to the post office. Now, spectacular stunts and crashes. Stunt pilot fearless Frank Frakes deliberately crashes his biplane into a lake and survives. (6:41). He crashes a biplane into the ground (note the ad for the Edwards Hotel on the side of the plane!) Frakes crashes his plane into a house as part of a stunt show, the plane bursts into flames, but all is well. (7:29) At an air pageant in England, a biplane pilot loses control and crashes right in front of the Royal Box, but everyone is okay. (7:37) Francesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator, is killed when his plane crashed on takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, before hundreds of spectators. Newsreel has never filmed a greater tragedy (6:48-8:13). On June 22, 1935 George and Alfred de Monteverde in the Bellanca monoplane Francesco de Pinedo attempted a flight across the Atlantic from Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn to Rome The heavily laden plane lumbered down the runway never getting more than three feet off the ground. It overshot the runway and crashed on Flatbush Ave. The fliers were unhurt but the plane was damaged and the flight was abandoned. Planes fly in the sky. Man has conquered the skies (8:14-9:21) End credits (9:22-9:28).
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[Music] [Music] army maneuvers in the clouds for some planes doing this stuff of the newsreel your mother gone [Music] victories of the future and the battleground of the sky will be won by just such perfect precision in control a new science of fighting never dreamed of by the conquerors of the past and cloud pictures beyond the imaginations of newsreel editors of all [Music] we share the hazards and thrills with army pilots to brave the air bumps and pockets of Yosemite Valley this is no place for a jittery pilot to take a bomber steep stone walls and sudden wind burns may mean quick disaster any moment that's the chances you takin the bombing business all the newsreel imitating the Helldivers staging a smoke screen display at Miami Airport another sky war maneuver to hide from enemy planes but they fail to see one another at this game Helldivers is right [Music] going down stymied in acrobats display life-saving equipment at Roosevelt Field bailout as the order and they don't mean robos count em pull the ripcord men of the chute doesn't open it's too late to be surprised but these have all opened and proven in aviation safeguards - Floyd Bennett Field comes a German gentleman to see how much his life and our nerves will stand mr. Goethe kilise who chances his neck to prove a plane container bird writes is plain like a while steer in a row Dale spun Flyers have proven invaluable and testing plane constructor [Music] hey close foots if you want to see this picture on the screen the only trouble the stunt flying is you're the only one who never knows what happened with a plane look at that monkey trying to see our post on the grounding of fly without crashing [Music] there he comes and upside down all the way pick it up your fool pick it up Wow 10 peace in the ground turns your ass needle Prince put him wavy we filmed aviation history with the first flight of a China clipper at the Music Texas giant ocean liner off the waters at Alameda California on route for the Philippines over the new bridge to Oakland and headed for the Pacific an intrepid feat of sky trailblazing seventy flying hours a possible disaster and then the newsreel cameraman meets them over Manila another late in the air route that girdles the world another chapter of man's conquest and a new transportation era in aviation history the very call takes our cameras to Miami to shoot a giant mystery plane whose is it and what is it attempting perhaps another Lindbergh around the earth daredevil its landing with a dead stick now we'll know [Music] for you while the youth of the world isn't fooling the spirit of Aviation has captured their imagination cowboys and Indians are forgotten the future generation has err minded even though some of their planes are mr. Bern le demonstrates his auto carrying plane at Floyd Bennett Field just hit your speed wagon to a star soaring airliner and enjoy motoring while applying a newsreel novel II now perhaps a vital necessity in the future a great opportunity to get even with a backseat driver by Pangborn dares fate on the smallest lying flea inventor claims it's foolproof that everybody should own one when they do me for the subway there he goes in the jitter special hold on why his errand well the first motorcars were geared at who who knows in ten years instead of slapping please we'll be riding online maybe you prefer the scaleless wonder of Santa Monica while the water minutes and letter proves that actually flies the cell and realize now indebted we are to these fearless men who braved death for our progress ok Waldo now show the audience the brakes on the front wheel Jim returns to work to his home in Garden City Long Island this autogyro commuter has never did spy traffic jams he calls a motor car a relic of the past as he locks up a sky speed for the night Philadelphia has its air mail delivered by autogyro right on the roof of the post office so far autogyro seem to be the answer to the spot landing problem a forerunner of office and apartment roof line filled with one of these windmill buggies and every family the male's new RFD roof line delivery meet a man who crashes planes on newsreels on purpose fearless Frank breaks with 19 backups to his credit Frank faces death for a living and here's a sample of his work where he is that's still alive county fairs prefer us type secret or perhaps his house wrecking masterpiece my cue or a prank or you'll never crash your 20 [Music] just in time the spring solves a used main problem the Asian also has real disaster at Hendon England while shooting an air pageant one of the pilots lost control Masha's right before the Royal Box in the early morning of September 2nd 1933 we cranked away at the takeoff the Italian general de Pinedo leaving poi Benefield for Rome okay camp rise is going to crash into the fence get him out he didn't cut the motor there she goes and he's still in there the sorrowful end of another hero the newsreel has never filmed a greater tragedy ever NATO's death fails to dim the courage of the Monteverde brothers however as they enter their big plane bound for Rome but in taking off from Floyd Bennett they almost meet the same fate noted the capacity the giant skyliner is unable to rise watch the camera be brining it looks like a crash get up there they go another tragedy but only for the plane the two brave fliers escaped alive still determined to try again [Music] [Applause] that is the true spirit of aviation the spirit of a sky pioneers who have made our present pioneer impossible a rare mishaps today see worsen them because we still consider flying spectacular nine out of ten crack up saw the result of study are taking foolhardy Chancellor man has conquered the sky and given the newsreels glorious pictorial saga of achievement [Music]
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