Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Pathe
5862
SR002860_06_01.mov
7/1/1933
Jimmie Mattern tells of his aborted round-the-world flight and rescue after crash landing in Siberia
Title card: "Mattern Home Tells of Flight" / Jimmie Mattern's airplane taxis on runway at Floyd Bennett Field as line of New York City police officers stands nearby; motorcycle police escort the plane as it taxis / CU Mattern in the cockpit, with propeller whirling / he exits plane, to cheers / VS Mattern points to map as SOTs he describes his attempted route and crash landing in Siberia in June / CU SOT: "I spent a week on a point with an Eskimo camp," tells of his rescue, receipt of plane from Russian authorities, flight to Nome, Alaska, and his meetup with the rescue expedition / Note: exact day not known
Jimmie Mattern
United States
New York
New York City

Keywords

archival
newsreel
pilots
flights
crashes
rescues
Floyd Bennett Field
small airplanes
airplanes
monoplanes
arrivals
taxiing
New York Police Department
motorcycles
escorts
cockpits
propellers
exiting
Siberia
Eskimo people
Russian people
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