Today in 1927, Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo - TopicsExpress



          

Today in 1927, Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Todays video comes from a reel that contains three home movie-market news specials about Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, followed by 1927 home movie footage of Lindbergh in Caracas, Venezuela spliced on to the reel by Texas oilman, E.B. Hopkins, who was likely working in Caracas at the time. Hopkins’ splicing of his own related home movie footage onto the reel of commercial releases is an interesting example of home media practices of the day. ow.ly/wRavz
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:35:22 +0000

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