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100 year old film!!
This film clip is fascinating and in very good condition for its age being as it shows the Wright Bros demonstrating the Flyer to a group of European officers and officials in 1909.
The in flight shots were something else again and possibly the earliest aerial movie shots ever taken. When you think he had to fly the plane and also hand crank the camera, It must have been fixed in position as the camera stays motionless and in any case cameras were heavy in those times and the plane had little spare capacity. Note the take off ramp. Loved the old Italian Roman ruins in the final shots the approach speed was very slow in deed.
http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/see-the-film-wilbur_wright_and_his_flying_machine%27
By: Errol Martyn - 9th March 2012 at 10:03
The first movie to be shot from an aeroplane was on 24 April 1909, when a cameraman flew with Wilbur Wright in Italy. So this looks as though it is the film from that event.
It was not the first movie made from the air, however, that honour apparently going to the French Lebaudy brothers semi-rigid airship, the Republique. In June 1908 a movie was made of some of the early trial flights and a movie camera mounted in the car captured some memorable views of Paris from 2600 feet. Could there have been an even earlier movie made from one of Count Zeppelin’s airships, perhaps?
Errol
By: Errol Martyn - 9th March 2012 at 10:03
The first movie to be shot from an aeroplane was on 24 April 1909, when a cameraman flew with Wilbur Wright in Italy. So this looks as though it is the film from that event.
It was not the first movie made from the air, however, that honour apparently going to the French Lebaudy brothers semi-rigid airship, the Republique. In June 1908 a movie was made of some of the early trial flights and a movie camera mounted in the car captured some memorable views of Paris from 2600 feet. Could there have been an even earlier movie made from one of Count Zeppelin’s airships, perhaps?
Errol
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March 7, 2012 at 8:30 pm