[Stock Footage Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan]

[Stock Footage Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan]

Douglas "Wrong-Way Corrigan after his 1938 transatlantic flight in a Curtiss Robin from New York, landing in Ireland instead of California (he claimed his "compass must have been wrong").

Some warpage at the end but good shape. 12 splices, 0.55% shrinkage

1938

Film

See description

1964

16mm

00:01:14

Eastman

B/W

Silent and Sound

[Ireland/UK?]

ND

1736

Footage of Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan, after 1938 transatlantic flight in a Curtiss Robin from New York, landing in Ireland instead of California (he claimed his "compass must have been wrong"). Acquired on a reel labeled "stock footage" (edge code 1964) that included [Commemorative parade in Japan c. 1900s], “I Don't Want to Change the Subject" (Victory Bond Song), and stock footage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Wendell Willkie, and the U.S. 40th Inaugural Ceremonies, all c. 1938-1940s except for the Japan footage.