Summary

OVERSEAS RUN

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Title: OVERSEAS RUN
File Number: AFP-63AF 16mm VTM-63AF Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Industrial
Year: 01/01/1952
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1952 Travel Agent sets up a trip from Topeka on TWA to Paris, London, Rome and Madrid then has TWA crew answer questions about the trip that have to do with the airline with the camera showing the answers visually 01:00:24:00 Color 1952 ws Recap of Lindbergh's flight 01:01:19:00 Color 1952 ws Le Bourget Airport (Paris) - statue To Nungesser, Coli (failed) and Lindbergh (succeeded) 01:01:43:00 Color 1952 ms Model of Lindbergh airplane and the modern Constellation (TWA) 01:03:21:00 Color 1952 ws Paris landmarks: Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Palace of Versailles, booksellers on banks of Seine, outdoor cafe 01:04:23:00 Color 1952 ws Series of shots of London landmarks 01:04:49:00 Color 1952 ws Series of shots of Rome landmarks 01:05:27:00 Color 1952 ws Series of shots of Madrid - festival and bullfight 01:06:37:00 Color 1952 ws Series of shots of maintenance on the Constellation 01:07:20:00 Color 1952 ws ms Flight food preparation 01:08:21:00 Color 1952 ws ms Flight crew in ready room ID themselves 01:09:52:00 Color 1952 ms Facsimile machine has weather bureau report fax machine 01:10:00:00 Color 1952 ms Weather briefing 01:10:49:00 Color 1952 ms Pilot explains flight route and how (on cartoon map) clockwise and counterclock wise winds help flight 01:12:00:00 Color 1952 ms Navigator making flight plan 01:12:07:00 Color 1952 ms Emergency equipment drills in ready room using blackboard airplane diagram 01:12:31:00 Color 1952 ms Briefing by US Weather Forecaster 01:12:55:00 Color 1952 ws Gander, Newfoundland and its facilities weather forecasters at work several radio towers 01:13:33:00 Color 1952 ws Charlie Coast Guard weather ship in mid Atlantic 01:13:42:00 Color 1952 ms Map showing weather ship locations 01:13:52:00 Color 1952 ws ms Radar mast on Charlie radar room on Charlie as men work airplanes position 01:14:10:00 Color 1952 ws Constellation flies over Charlie 01:14:15:00 Color 1952 ws Airport Shannon, Ireland views of countryside 01:15:30:00 Color 1952 ms Passengers in cabin 01:16:02:00 Color 1952 ms Pilot and rest of crew working in their cockpit area 01:16:04:00 Color 1952 ms Nose gear rising into place 01:17:22:00 Color 1952 ms Pilot puts airplane on automatic pilot and takes off his gloves 01:17:55:00 Color 1952 ms Two of the crew in bunks until needed 01:18:06:00 Color 1952 ms Relief pilot and engineer in cabin seats 01:18:31:00 Color 1952 ms Meal served to pilot 01:18:39:00 Color 1952 ms Passengers get meals and drinks 01:19:11:00 Color 1952 ms Sleeper cabin in airplane woman gets in bunk says goodnight pulls curtain 01:19:28:00 Color 1952 ms cs Navigator at work 01:19:41:00 Color 1952 ms Radio operator at work using telegraph key 01:20:09:00 Color 1952 ms Navigator using periscopic sextant 01:20:39:00 Color 1952 ms Pilot at work 01:21:10:00 Color 1952 ms Stewardess leaves her bunk 01:21:25:00 Color 1952 ms Pilot is relieved gets into bunk 01:22:03:00 Color 1952 ms Airplane gets Radar fix from ship Charlie 01:18:08:00 Color 1952 ms Stewardess serves breakfast to woman in bunk 01:23:36:00 Color 1952 ws French Coastline 01:24:15:00 Color 1952 ws Orly Airport tower operator in tower talking to airplane 01:24:36:00 Color 1952 av AVs of Paris from passenger plane: Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, etc 01:25:10:00 Color 1952 ws EXCELLENT shot of plane's landing gear descending for touchdown view from pilot's window of approaching landing field Constellation lands at Orly Airport CU plane wheels touching down on pavement air traffic controllers monitoring airport activity The End
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