Make America First In The Air

Shot List:

00:00:35;23

Animated map of the United States with a line from New York to Kansas. A wagon train moves along the desert terrain of the Santa Fe Trail in 1849. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas, and continuing through New Mexico and Arizona to California.

00:01:07;01

View of a fast approaching steam locomotive passenger train. The railroad decreased the travel time between New York to California to four days.

00:01:18;15

Shows a U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight. The air plane decreased the travel time between New York and California to 27 hours.

00:01:27;03

Animation of a small ship moving away from the East coast of the United States. A large sailing vessel of the early clipper ship type under full sail. Animation of a small ship sailing to Great Britain. A four-stack "Ocean Greyhound" liner moving at full speed. Animated map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of the U.S. and England moving closer together.

00:02:00;09

Shows an R-34 airship (dirigible) in flight. The R-34 British airship made the first East-West crossing of the Atlantic by air in July 1919.The R-34 moored to the ground with a large crowd around the gondola.

00:02:10;04

Shows a British Bristol fighter aircraft in flight, diving and climbing through clouds.

00:02:34;08

Shows five United States Army Air Service Martin MB-1 bombers in a formation flight.

00:02:51;15

Three men talking, image of Wilbur Wright at left. CU of Orville Wright. The flight of an early model glider down the side of a hill as a group of spectators watch the flight.

00:03:34;19

Wilbur Wright placing wheel under wing of Wright "A" aircraft in France. Pan left with flight of Wright Brothers "A" aircraft over a level field balloon in bg.

A still photograph of Orville Wright flying the first aircraft on 17 December 1903 at Kill Devil Hills in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Two men turn propellers and start the engines of Wright "A" aircraft in France. Catapult launching tower behind the aircraft. Spectators in stands during the first aircraft demonstration near Paris. The takeoff and the flight of Wright Brothers "A" aircraft. Orville Wright and U.S. Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm seated in Wright "A" aircraft at Fort Myer in Virginia. Orville Wright and Lt. Lahm in Wright "A" aircraft in flight over Fort Meyer.

00;05:12;15

Wilbur Wright demonstrated his invention before the King of Italy and Italian government officials in 1909. Soldiers push the Wright aircraft out of a hangar. The King of Italy and Italian officials watch the take off of the Wright aircraft from a launching rail.

00:05:43;01

Shows flight of five early model aircraft over water. French aviator Louis Bleriot seated in his Bleriot VI Tandem monoplane. A man turns the propeller and starts the aircraft. A man working on a Farman Voisin bi-plane. American aviator Glenn H Curtiss seated in his Gold Bug bi-plane. He starts the motor and the aircraft taxis away.

00:06:33;12

LS a German Zeppelin dirigible in flight to the left over landscape, trees in fg. Animated map shows the Zeppelin routes in Germany.

00:07:05;16

Shows how airplanes were adapted for war in WWI. Shows French Nieuport aircraft parked on an airfield. Bombs are loaded into early WWI bomber aircraft with bombardier's compartment in nose of open cockpit plane. Shows machine gunner in open cockpit of aircraft (plane) in WWI, plane in flight. Shows a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft taking off.

00:07:50;15

U.S. Army Major General Mason Mathews Patrick decorates First Lieutenant E. V. Rickenbacker with the Distinguished Service Cross (4th Oak Leave cluster) at an air service field near Belrain, Meuse in France on October 19, 1918 during World War I. CU image of 1st Lieut. E.V. Rickenbacker and Capt. J.A.Meissner.

00:08:17;20

Seven French bi-wing airplanes flying overhead in battle formation going over the lines to bomb the enemy, an observation balloon in distant foreground.

00:08:37;04

The sixth section battery 'F' antiaircraft service of the British Expeditionary Forces in action in Busigny, Nord, France during World War I. The anti-aircraft battery in action against a German observation air plane. Two antiaircraft guns are mounted on World War I vintage trucks which are jacked up on blocks and are leveled with leveling screw jacks. Soldiers standing nearby.

00:09:12;17

Col. F. P. Lahm, Chief of Air Services 2nd Army speaking to another officer in WWI.

00:09:40;04

American aircraft industry in WWI. Interior scenes of a U.S. aircraft factory where wings for WWI aircraft are being fabricated. American aircraft (airplane) factory and production of planes in WWI.

00:10:48;15

Large group of workers and spectators watching as the Zeppelin LZ 120 dirigible "Bodensee" is pulled out of large hangar. Shows workers around and in the gondola as it rests on the ground. View from the airship "Bodensee" of an unidentified German City. Interior scenes of the gondola of the "Bodensee" showing two men eating dinner, other people are looking out windows of gondola. Scenes as the "Bondensee" passenger airship comes in for landing, crowd on ground.