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Breaking through the clouds : the First Women's National Air Derby / written, directed & produced by Heather A. Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [Columbia, MD] : Archetypal Images, ©2010.Description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • First Women's National Air Derby
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Jonathan T. Donnelly ; music, Bryan Talbot.
Narrator, Molly Moores.Summary: "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.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023 National Aviation Week
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD 797.52 B828 Available 33111009550159
Total holds: 0

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.

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