America’s Memorial To Famous Wright Brothers In North Carolina (1938)

Title reads: “NORTH CAROLINA“. North Carolina, United States of America. Several shots of a huge stone memorial to the Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright) on the 34th birthday of the aeroplane. Officers of the United States Naval Air Force (?) lay wreaths at the base of the monument. J T Daniels, who saw the first flight by the brothers, stands with another man and says at first people thought the Wright Brothers were crazy, but when they saw the plane fly “it was the prettiest bird we ever saw“. The American Naval Air Force flies a small squadron of biplanes flies over the memorial. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932),