Biography: Amelia Earhart
Biography: Amelia Earhart
MSs of AMELIA EARHART talking with her husband GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM about her impending worldwide flight in 1937: "Well, GP, you know it's because I want to." He tries to coerce her into taking him along, to which she replies that she prefers 180 pounds of gasoline to 180 lbs of husband. Slow motion CU Amelia standing in front of plane, turning to camera.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Newsreel of a ticker tape parade in New York City in honor of Amelia Earhart's first solo flight, 1932: TLSs parade, motorcade, tickertape, crowds; MS AMELIA EARHART waving, holding bouquet of roses. MS shaggy-haired Earhart talking to cam on airfield; CU Amelia smiling, looking into cam; MS Amelia getting into plane; TLS Lockheed single propeller monoplane taking off.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Excellent montage of suffragettes marching in parades (many carrying American flags), giving speeches, convening in city streets, meeting w/ local politicians, 1910s; women's suffrage movement; equality, voting rights.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Montage of the outset of World War One (WWI): TLSs AEF soldiers (doughboys) marching in parade in New York City; MS Caucasian woman in white marching w/ American flag; panning MS several white woman decked out in patriotic wear. MS host of Caucasian woman clocking in at factory (famous, well-traveled shot taken during early 1900s). Great MSs Caucasian American women happily working in industrial settings during wartime, sawing trees, tightening screws, changing tires, moving boxes, etc. (war work)
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Montage of nurses working on the front during WWI: TLS nurses helping soldier from ambulance; TLS fleet of ambulances being cranked, started, driven off; MSs women & African-American men serving food to AEF soldiers. Newsreel of celebration in New York City after the signing of the Armistice, 1918: MS crowd waving newspapers, flags, hats; MS AEF soldiers dancing in street with women; panning TLS crowd at steps of Federal Hall, Wall Street, followed by great TLS white man in business suit waving American flag (Stars & Stripes) at the base of the statue of George Washington. (Victory celebrations)
Biography: Amelia Earhart
MSs Caucasian women entering & voting at a polling place in 1920 after winning the right to vote.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Roaring 20s / Liberated Woman montage: CU flapper rolling her silk stockings up to her knee; many MSs flappers partying, being coy, dancing, carousing; MS thrill-seeking woman dancing on highwire in city, an umbrella her only mean of balance; MS leggy showgirls dancing in nightclub; MS/CU young crew drinking booze; more MSs flappers dancing w/ gusto, high-energy; MS group of flappers in swimsuits dancing the Charleston on beach; TLS/MS two flappers in jean overalls dancing on top of tall chimney in countrysde; TLS/MSs aerial stunts from planes (daring young women such as LILLIAN BOYER hang precariously from in-flight biplanes or catch a ride from speeding car to plane).
Biography: Amelia Earhart
MS/TLSs of AMELIA EARHART strapping on pilot's helmet, starting propeller, flying a biplane, 1920s. Montage regarding CHARLES LINDBERGH and his historic flight across the Atlantic, 1927: h/a TLS of the Spirit of St. Louis taxiing on runway; MSs Charles posing for camera; LS massive tickertape parade in New York City.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Newsreel of the Friendship transatlantic flight & subsequent celebrations in London and New York receptions, 1928: TLS/MSs mechanics putting together Friendship seaplane at dock; TLSs Fokker F-7 (F-VIII?) trimotor seaplane on water; MS of AMELIA EARHART waving from plane; TLS propeller being turned over; TLSs Friendship in flight; panning TLS dozens of press photographers taking pix; MS Amelia posing, holding flowers; MSs Amelia meeting English persons; LS clogged (too many boats) waterway in NY Harbor; MSs Amelia posing with Friendship pilot WILBUR STULTZ and mechanic LOUIS GORDON, press taking pictures; TLS motorcade through NYC.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
MSs of AMELIA EARHART waving from plane on runway; air-to-air shot of single propeller monoplane in flight. TLS Earhart flying an experimental autogyro; MS Amelia smiling in cockpit. MS/CUs Amelia and her NY publisher husband GEORGE PUTNAM (George Palmer Putnam) posing on a boat in NY Harbor. MS/CUs Amelia & CHARLES LINDBERGH posing in group photo w/ several other prominent male & female aviators at black tie affair. CU Amelia talking to cam, map on wall in BG. Air to air shot monoplane in flight over city. Newsreel of Amelia's solo trans-Atlantic flight, 1932: MSs of her consulting with mechanics; TLSs crowds around plane.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
MSs Amelia talking to cam, talking about the plane she has chosen, then discussing the latest weather report w/ man named Bert, then chatting w/ hubbie George Putnam, who gives her a kiss on the cheek; TLSs plane taking off, in flight; aerials of Irish countryside; MS Amelia shaking the hand of the Irish farmer whose cropfield she landed in; TLS/MSs Amelia sitting on her plane, surrounded by crowd of people. MS pressmen huddled in pounding rain; MS Amelia speaking w/ reporters, saying she's happy to be in England. TLS/MSs Amelia & George on balcony of hotel, waving to crowd. Panning TLS van slowly making way through large crowd in Paris. MS/LTSs of Amelia getting the royal treatment in Europe, being extremely humble.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Celebration in New York upon her return home, 1932: TLS crowds on steamboat & liner at dock; MSs of AMELIA EARHART getting off liner, into car; TLSs ticker tape parade; nice traveling shot of crowd, American flags & strands of ticker tape in BG; MS/CUs NYC Mayor JIMMY WALKER talking about Amelia's triumph (real audio); MS Amelia talking into several microphones (NBC, WOR), saying she expects to make another trans-Atlantic crossing, only this time under regular commercial service. MS/CUs of Amelia talking with RUTH BRYAN OWEN and novelist FANNY HURST, Ms. Hurst & Ms. Earhart congratulating Ms. Owen (center) on her new appointment in Denmark. TLS monoplane landing in snowy airfield; MS Earhart climbing out of plane. MS of AMELIA EARHART talking to reporters about what she brought with her on her transcontinental (coast-to-coast) trip (water, tomato juice, & chicken sandwich)
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Newsreel of Amelia & George boarding a ship bound for Hawaii, 1935: LS large ocean liner pulling from port, crowd waving good-bye in FG; MS Earhart & GEORGE PUTNAM talking on deck; l/a wide MS of her plane being hoisted aboard; MSs Amelia & George consulting a navigational map; MS Amelia getting leied in Hawaii; MSs Amelia being interviewed by reporter, refusing to announce her intentions of flying to the mainland. Newsreel of her successful flight from Hawaii to mainland USA, 1935: TLSs crowds outside hangar; LSs monoplane taking off from Wheeler Field in Oahu, in flight, landing in Oakland, CA; air to air shot of plane over land; TLS plane taxiing, crowd following; MS Amelia in cockpit w/ flowers. MS/CUs of AMELIA EARHART standing by Lockheed plane, talking w/ people.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Newsreel of Amelia talking to cam about her proposed worldwide flight approximating the equator; traveling TLS of Lockheed 10E Electra on runway. MSs Amelia working w/ mechanics, inspecting her plane. MSs Amelia talking w/ husband George Putnam about the trip, Amelia saying she hopes the trip's success will get women interested in flying.
Biography: Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart leaving for her circumnavigational flight of the globe, flying a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra airplane. Shots in cockpit with Earhart piloting. Aerials from plane. Shots of on ground navigators with radios and maps. Shots of plane flying into clouds.