Explorer Richard Byrd makes reported first successful flight to the North Pole on 5/9/1926
Small icebergs in King's Bay shot from the Chantier, explorer Richard Byrd's polar ship / Pan from Chantier and around King's Bay, mountains in bkgd / VS men row Fokker airplane with words "Josephine Ford Byrd Arctic Expedition" on it to shore on improvised raft / Norge airship of Polar explorer Roald Amundsen and American explorer Lincoln Elsworth with crowd of men around it / VS men take Norge into hangar / Amundsen (black hat) and Ellsworth (no hat) walk up to Fokker plane and climb in followed by Byrd (helmet) then come back out, / MS man shakes hands with Byrd, pilot Floyd Bennett and another man, Byrd and Bennett climb into Fokker / MS Fokker taxis away from camera / Fokker takes off, group of ten men on ground cheer and throw hats into air / Fokker flies over little village / Fokker in air / Fokker lands / Byrd and Bennett get out of plane and crowd of men surround them and pat them on backs in congratulations after a successful flight to North Pole and back to Spitsbergen / CU Byrd and Bennett in parkas / CU Byrd
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Editorial #:
1128050141
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
May 09, 1926
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:02:01:02
Location:
Kongsfjorden, Norway
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003548_04_01.mov
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