[Universal Newspaper Newsreel: Autogiro Lands in San Francisco] 1932

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title: San Francisco, Cal. Autogiro "Mercury" delivers 1932 greetings! -- Novel plane parks itself in heart of metropolis
Autogiro (early helicopter) lands on Civic Center Plaza in front of San Francisco City Hall
It is towing a "Greetings 1932" banner
Lands on plaza
Crowd cheering, waving hats (sound on film)
CU aviator pulls up helmet and salutes camera
Autogiro parked on plaza with City Hall in background

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Transcription

[Music] the Golden Gate City figures out an upto-date way to send its greetings to the World by way of the sky in letters 10 ft High a new idea that's just as bright and cheerful as San Francisco itself the auto gyro piloted by Captain Claude Owen and the captains taking an awful chance in that crowd of buildings one little slip and the greetings will turn into something not quite so cheerful he's aiming for the beautiful Civic Center and he's only got a space to land in 125 ft by 300 with a trolley line at the upper end but the captain knows his stuff and for the first time in history a plane lands on San Francisco's front porch well it's a nice thought San Francisco and the same to you and many of them

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