We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
442
Polar Flight Films
With Lieut. Commander Byrd, U. S. N., IN America's Polar Triumph
The complete and official motion picture record of the first flight over the North Pole, filmed from the "Josephine Ford" on the 750mile flight from Spitzbergen to the North Pole, and showing the first motion pictures of the Pole itself, is a record-making achievement of the screen.
Byrd's plane at Spitzbergen
The world knows the details of Byrd's flight over the Pole; the film records those details dramatically, and brings to motion picture audiences everywhere the sight of the trackless Polar wastes of ice and snow, the baffling mystery of the top of the world, a view of which had previously been seen by only one man among the millions on earth. There is unfortunately no film record of the Peary expedition, but the two marvels of the twentieth century, the airplane and the motion picure, have penetrated Polar isolation and recorded the sight of it for the world to look upon.
The film gives the whole story in its dramatic completeness — the expedition on the way to Spitzbergen, the lowering of the plane from the boat to the improvised rafts for its
journey across the dangerous ice floes Kings Bay, and the preparations for the he off. "Just at this time," says the chroni( "the dirigible Norge poked her nose above t horizon to the South, adding a new zest the race for polar honors." Later scenes the picture show the departure of the Noi for her flight to Alaska. By this time By had returned with the news of his success! flight to the Pole and the gallant Americ Naval Commander took off again in his pla as an honor to Amundsen and Ellsworth a accompanied them for some distance in t Fokker.
Amundsen and Ellsworth visited Byn plane and bade him farewell before his ( parture and were at his base to welcome h on his return. Byrd later turned over 1 valuable instruments to Amundsen for 1 use.
On the flight toward the Pole from Spi bergen, Byrd himself turned the eye of t camera on the region below his plane, ai it was Byrd who filmed the vast silent stretch about the Pole, completing the story whi from an educational and scientific view pel is a surpassing contribution to the alreai brilliant record of the motion picture.
3 reels. Pathe Exchange.
The Amundsen Polar Flight
In the light of subsequent events, still fi ther interest attaches to the film which recor the first attempt of Amundsen to reach t North Pole by airplane, and which is itself fascinating account of the expedition whi came within 150 miles of its goal.
There is scarcely a more intrepid figu among famous explorers of the world thi Capt. Roald Amundsen, who after his d.