Herbert Brucker Film
Contents of the Collection
The Herbert Brucker Film is a small collection containing one privately shot black-and-white film taken at Mitchell Field in Garden City, New York in 1927. The film is five minutes and 44 seconds long.
The footage depicts several well-known aviation events and activities by famous aviators, such as Charles Lindbergh taking off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" for his transatlantic flight; the christening of "America," Richard E. Byrd's Fokker C-2; and James Doolittle performing aerobatic maneuvers. More general aviation scenes are also featured, such as flights by the 1st Pursuit Group and the USS Los Angeles airship and a parachute jump by an unidentified individual. The final scene features Charles Lindbergh's motorcade driving by a house, though the vehicles pass too quickly for him to be seen.
Dates
- Creation: 1927
Creator
- Brucker, Herbert (Person)
Language of Materials
All materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The film in this collection may not be handled, but a digital surrogate is available on our The Museum of Flight Digital Collections. For more information contact us.
Conditions Governing Use
The Museum of Flight (TMOF) Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from TMOF archives before any publication use. TMOF does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 film reel)
Existence and Location of Copies
Materials from this collection have been digitized and are available at The Museum of Flight Digital Collections.
Subject
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 (Person)
- Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 (Person)
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 (Person)
- United States. Army. Air Service (Organization)
- United States. Army. Air Service. Pursuit Group, 1st (Organization)
- Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Herbert Brucker Film
- Status
- Completed Level 1
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Processing, cataloging, and digitization of the film in this collection was made possible by a Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) "Recordings at Risk" grant.
- Edition statement
- 1st edition
Repository Details
Part of the The Museum of Flight Archives Repository
9404 East Marginal Way South
Seattle Washington 98108-4097
206-764-7874
curator@museumofflight.org