Endurance Flight

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
14
Date Released
9 Sep 1929
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Movietone Records - Endurance Flight and Makes First Air Interview. DESCRIPTION: Jackson and O’Brine of St Louis up in the air for over 1,100 hours. SHOTLIST: Shots of two planes in the air. A man climbs out onto the wing strut of one. A Movietone "mike" is lowered to get the first sky message through sound films. Man with "mike" climbs down ladder suspended from plane, drops "mike" to man in plane below and converses with him. One plane comes in to land. Crowd cheer.
Keywords
Aviation; Speed records
Footage sources
Movietone
Card file number
420
Length of story (in feet)
84
Story extras:
Film clip

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How to cite this record

'Endurance Flight', British Movietone News Issue No. 14, 9 Sep 1929. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/2218 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)