Full title reads: "America. The World Wonder Flyers! First pictures of the two amazing airmen - Harold Gatty and Wiley Post with their machine 'Winnie Mae' on their departure from Roosevelt Field."
Intertitle reads: "Navigator Gatty - photographing for the Pathe Gazette - has with him the first...
Full title reads: "America. The World Wonder Flyers! First pictures of the two amazing airmen - Harold Gatty and Wiley Post with their machine 'Winnie Mae' on their departure from Roosevelt Field."
Intertitle reads: "Navigator Gatty - photographing for the Pathe Gazette - has with him the first motion picture camera ever carried on a Transatlantic aeroplane flight." Intertitle reads: "Off at dawn!"
Roosevelt Field, United States of America (USA).
Shots of Post and Gatty. They pose for a moment by their Monoplane and then climb into their flying positions.
Post shouts a greeting from the cockpit. (Mute)
Shots of Gatty operating radio in interior of plane.
The plane moves away from the waiting people - its departure is lit by flares.
Shots of the plane as it takes off.
N.B. This story appears to have been misfiled and belongs with 31/54.
N.B. Contains some different material to that in 847.18.
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