Synopsis
The 1927 Dole Air Race from Oakland to Hawaii: airplanes taking off, a life-raft demonstration and the crashes of the Pabco Flyer and El Encanto, with aviators including Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte, Arthur Goebel and William Davis, Martin Jensen, Mildred Doran and Auggie Pedlar, and Bill Erwin and Alvin Eichwaldt.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0208_Dole_Air_Race_1927_03_23_32_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Before the moon.. there was Honolulu! · Spuzz · 2017-06-05
Somewhat blah overview of an air race to see who could get to Hononlulu at the fastest speed. Seeing this is 1927, there's obviously some sort of historical interest here.. I imagine that some of these people were famous aviators for it's time. We see plane after plane take off, as well get a face shot of the pilot(s). Quite interesting to note for the final race, we see shots for the people 'lost at sea', which could only mean that all of these shots were taken BEFORE the race began, so that had a bit of an eerie quality. The rest is sort of blah.