Summary: Air show honoring the 50th anniversary of powered flight, Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 17 December 1953. (Shot list to follow.) Reel 1: MS Billy Parker's pusher-type aircraft, being manually pushed backwards, crowd in fg. 2) MS same scene description, still photographers taking pictures of Billy Parker. 3) CU men strapping Mr. Parker into the aircraft. 4) MS panning to the right with the takeoff of pusher aircraft. 5) MS crowd observing the air show (scene has reflection in same). 6) MS Gen. Doolittle speaking, crowd in bg. 7) CU crowd as they observe air show. 8) Several views of various unidentified speakers. 9) CU group of scouts watching air show. 10) CU memorial on Kill Devil Hill -- camera pans to top. 11) High angle shot down on valley showing cars on road, in far bg helicopters in flight, possibly H-13's. 12) MS refreshment stands sponsored by the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church. 13) CU of plaque inscribed, THE FIRST FLIGHT FROM A 60 FOOT WOODEN TRACK LAID ON THESE SANDS, ORVILLE WRIGHT ROSE THROUGH THE WIND ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 17, 1903. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THAT A MACHINE CARRYING A MAN HAD RAISED ITSELF BY ITS OWN POWER INTO THE AIR FOR FLIGHT. IT SAILED FORWARD WITHOUT REDUCTION IN SPEED AND FINALLY lANDED AT A POINT AS HIGH AS THAT FROM WHICH IT STARTED. FLIGHT LASTED ABOUT 12 SECONDS. 14) MS H-19 flying around memorial. The Billy Parker pusher-type monoplane flying near memorial -- camera pans with monoplane as it lands. 15) MS memorial on top of Kill Devil Hill, formation of four H-19's flying toward camera. 16) MS formation of six C-119's flying to the left. 17) MS formation of six C-124's flying to the left. 18) ELS Jet flying by, unidentified (possibly F-86F). 19) MLS formation of three F-94's buzzing area. 20) MS formation of three B-47's. 21) MS formation of four F-84's initiate steep climb -- Thunderbird Team. 22) Several views of precision flying by this team. 23) Several CU views of the Thunderbirds as they buzz monument. 24) MS completion of the bomb burst maneuver of the Thunderbirds near the monument. 25) MS British Canberra jet bomber flying by the memorial -- bomber having just arrived from London, England. 26) Another view, same scene description. Canberra buzzes field, initiates steep climb. Reel 2: 1) MS F-86 buzzing field, repeat same scene description, aircraft buzzes monument. 2) MS two F-89's initiating climb. 3) ELS formation of five jet aircraft -- unidentifiable. 4) ELS formation of twenty-one jet aircraft, possibly F-84's -- formation in shape of A.P. 5) MS formation of three B-47's flying low across area. 6) MLS top of monument on Kill Devil Hill -- camera pans over to diamond shaped formation of Thunderbirds initiating steep climb. Several views of the Thunderbirds giving demonstration in precision flying. 7) CU shots of the Thunderbirds as they buzz area. (Quality of these scenes is good.) 8) CU plaque, heading, THE FIRST FLIGHT. 9) CU inscription on stone marking the beginning of flight: THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT OF AN AIRPLANE WAS MADE FROM THIS SPOT BY ORVILLE WRIGHT, DECEMBER 17, l903. THE MACHINE DESIGNED AND BUILT BY WILBUR WRIGHT AND ORVILLE WRIGHT. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED EY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DECEMBER 17, l928, TO COMMEMORATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS EVENT. 10) CU written on monument, END OF FIRST FLIGHT, TIME: 12 SECONDS, DISTANCE: 120 FEET, DECEMBER 17, 1903. PILOT: ORVILLE. 11) MS road leading to the memorial, cars parked along same. 12) High angle shot down on sign, THE FIRST FLIGHT, DECEMBER 17, 1903, WAS MADE ABOUT A HALF MILE NORTH OF THIS HILL. 13) LS down hill to site of air show, city in far bg. 14) MS personnel climbing hill. 15) MLS H-l9 hovering, city in far bg. 16) CU sign, THE FIRST FLIGHT. 17) CU monument on top of Kill Devil Hill. 18) CU two children standing near monument, two H-13's hovering in bg. 19) CU tail section of an H-13, personnel examining helicopter. 20) CU sign, WRIGHT BROTHERS NATIONAL MEMORIAL. Camera pans to the left, making LS of the memorial. Fair (Basic: 2 reels, 35mm, silent, orig neg)
