[1954 Flight]--Reel 2

Date1954

Can DescriptionsDonation originally made in 1992, rediscovered in backlog 2/2001. According to 1992 letter, films obtained by Arthur Verow from Herbert Babcock. Film is of 1954 flight by Babcock and three other men across the country. Films accompanied by audiocassette of interview of Babcock by Verow in 1988. NHF cataloger notes: (18:00) view of ground from air, fires, on ground in New Orleans, cars and buses, Baton Rouge Airdraft Inc., men packing their plane, aerial view of fires, Mississippi River, industry, (21:00) rural landscape, farms, runway, falt open landscape, (23:30) mountains in distance, inside cockpit, plateaus, flying over mountains, letters 'M, J, C, E, B,' on side of the mountain, (26:45) view of plane landing from cockpit, aerial view of snow-topped mountains, very flat open landscape near mountains (Wyoming?), (30:00) view of sun setting form the air, (31:00) coast, boats in harbor, more populated coastal area, urban landscape, coast, reel ends (34:00)