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