World Through Stamps: The Stories Behind Postage Stamps, The

Creator: Craven Film Corporation

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Pan over CUs of various airmail stamps; Title: NEW HORIZONS FOR OLD; By Alan Stern; CU 1949 airmail stamp commemorating 45th anniversary of Wright Brothers flight; French stamp commorating July 25, 1908 Bleriot flight across English channel; VS old Bleriot plane taking off; VS old World War I-vintage planes, not clearly identified; VS World War I combat in air and anti-aircraft fire from ground; May 16, 1919: US Navy seaplane taking off from Newfoundland (NC4), one lands at Azores, two lost; CU New York Times page about trip; VS New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street ca. 1919; CU first airmail stamp – 24 cents of Curtiss Jenny in flight; CU inverted center stamp; VS Jenny flying, air-to-air; Spectators on ground looking up to sky, ostensibly watching air show; VS airshow activities; CU finger pointing at book, looking for specific passage, then specific passage outlined in The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh; CU Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd; Noel Davis; Capt. Charles Nungesser; Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta’s plane; VS CUs other aviators; LS Byrd’s plane crashing at Teterboro airport; Wreck of Davis’s plane; NY Times headlines about loss of Nungesser and Coli; CU Charles Lindbergh in helmet, goggles and leather flying jacket; Spirit of St. Louis being rolled to airport; Lindbergh suiting up for flight, does final interviews; Lindbergh gets into Spirit of St. Louis; Lindbergh takes off from New York, very heavily loaded, finally wheels up (May 20, 1927); Aerial over Rhode Island and Cape Cod; LS ocean waves (VS); Coast of Nova Scotia; Wing against sky, over ocean; Rocky coast of Newfoundland; Ocean; Clouds, fog enters frame from right; Night sky illuminated by moon; Lightning in night sky; Clouds seen from above; Flyby fishing boats on ocean; Coast of Ireland from air; Flying over England, buildings on coast; Night shot of Place de la Concorde; Night shot, people milling around airfield and running to plane; Nighttime mob (good); Running figures on field; CU smiling Lindbergh in Paris; VS commemorative stamps honoring Lindbergh, issued by various nations