Video Parts (2)
This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Balloon Race and Airplanes on Field Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Several partially inflated balloons on Ford Airport field - workers filling balloons - crowd in foreground, balloons - close-up of balloonists - crowd, men in basket being presented with flowers by girl, life raft in rigging of balloon, balloon ascending - close-up of man in basket, balloon rising - view of moored balloons, spectators - men in basket, balloon rising - men by basket - balloons rising - plane on field - view of motor - tail of plane, ‘Woodson Type 3-A, Woodson Eng. Co., Bryan, Ohio’ written on tail - plane on field, ‘Pitcairn Aviation Inc.’ on tail - ‘The Super Swallow, Swallow Airplane Mfg. Co., Wichita, Kansas’ on field - ‘Curtis’ plane on field - ‘Waco’ plane on field - ‘Mercury Aircraft Aerial Service Corp., Hammondsport, N.Y.’ written on tail of plane on field - close-up of motor and wheel of plane on field - ‘Alexander Eaglerock 6’ plane on field - small motor hooked onto wheel struts under plane - ‘Travel Air Mfg. Co., Inc., Wichita, Kansas’ written on plane’s tail. [1928]
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