Breaking through the clouds : the First Women's National Air Derby / written, directed & produced by Heather A. Taylor.
Material type: FilmPublication details: [Columbia, MD] : Archetypal Images, ©2010.Description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- First Women's National Air Derby
- Director of photography, Jonathan T. Donnelly ; music, Bryan Talbot.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | 797.52 B828 | Available | 33111009550159 |
DVD.
Narrator, Molly Moores.
Director of photography, Jonathan T. Donnelly ; music, Bryan Talbot.
"Experience the exhilaration, ever-present danger, heart-breaking tragedy and ultimate triumph as twenty contestants fly from California to Ohio in the First Women's National Air Derby. Follow along as headline aviatrixes Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, Phoebe Omlie, Bobbi Trout and Louise Thaden race across the country during nine amazing days in the summer of 1929"--Container.
Includes actual footage of the 1929 derby interviews with legendary pilots Elinor Smith Sullivan, Patty Wagstaff, Julie Clark, family members of the original pilots, and aviation historians.