We Saw It Happen (Aviation history)

Duration: 10:00

Year Published: 1950

Creator: United Aircraft Corporation

Complete Record: Shots of suburban neighborhood, history of Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, starting with 1903.. Shots of early airplanes taking off in fields, blunders, crashes. Military scenes, WWI and WW2, early war planes, planes factories, guns and ammunition in planes. Shots of dancing, boxing, rugby, New York Times paper shot of first transatlantic flight, mail service planes. Bombs being dropped on ships, air carriers, planes taking off, planes flying in formation, Hitler, Nazis, marching in Paris, air raids, guns, tanks and explosions. Shots of war planes flying from the perspective of another plane, destruction of air bombs on towns and churches in Europe, shots of early commercial airlines.