LUCKY LINDBERGH ARRIVES SAFE IN PARIS

Year Published: 1920s

Creator: Kodak

Format: 16mm

Description: Made for the home market in the late 1920s and released by Kodak as part of their Kodascope film library, this collection of silent newsreels celebrates Charles Lindbergh's 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. Titled "The Epic American Trans-Atlantic Flight" the film shows Lindy at :25 before looking at the accidents that crippled his competitors for the Ortieg prize. At :30, Renee Fonck's three-engine Sikorsky airplane, the S-35, is destroyed on takeoff. At :56 Admiral Byrd's Fokker trimotor is shown crash landing. At 1:18 Chamberlain's Bellanca is shown taking off, and then returning to the field with damaged landing gear. At 1:49, the Davis and Wooster attempt ends in disaster near Langley. At 2:00, Nungesser and Coli vanish on their attempt to fly to New York from Paris. At 2:25, Lindbergh poses with the Spirit of St. Louis and at 2:38 bids his mother goodbye. At 2:49 events of May 20th are seen with the aircraft being pushed out of its hangar. At 2:57 a new newsreel begins... the airplane is moved, loaded with fuel (3:20), and Lindbergh suiting up (3:28). At 3:40 Richard Byrd wishes Lindy good luck. At 4:15 the aircraft takes off on its flight. At 5:13 a new newsreel " Lucky Lindbergh arrives safe in Paris" shows Lindbergh's route in an animated map, and shows events at LeBourget Airport as Lindy arrives. At 6:07, shots of the airport during the day, and at 6:20 searchlights at night illuminating the airport. At 7:21 Lindy is shown at the U.S. Embassy. At 8:34 Lindbergh is decorated by the President of France with the Legion of Honor. At 9:03 Lindy poses with the Spirt of St. Louis. The film ends with a shot of Lindbergh and his mother.

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