Treasure Island - 1941

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For more aviation history, go to www.panam.org. This video shows a trip across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to Treasure Island in the summer of 1941, to see the Pan Am Terminal and the departure of the China Clipper and a Boeing B-314. From the John Summers Collection at the Prelinger Archive.

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5 мар 2014

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@cageordie Год назад

I wonder if the original movie still exists. You can see that this is an interlaced video transfer. Still great to have available.

@fourfortyroadrunner6701 2 года назад

This was nice, I hope you will update it with some narrative. I'm 73 and know most of what I'm looking at because I've studied these aircraft, and know a bit of TI history. I went to Navy electronics tech A school there in 68-69. Member of the Island amateur radio club, K6NCG. Look it up there are 3 websites showing photos over the years. I climbed the 120' tower we had about 10 times. Too bad there are no more 314's they were a gorgeous airplane, as were the Martins and Sikorsky s

@atomsmash100 2 года назад

Gorgeous images of a time long past

@panamhistoricalfoundation 2 года назад

The Treasure Island Museum is doing a great job at pulling together much of that history, and worth checking out: www.treasureislandmuseum.org/

@shaunmullins6701 6 лет назад

Fantastic sequence of shots showing the Sikorsky S-42 and Boeing 314! But one is left wondering how great the original film must have looked. What we are seeing here was transferred to poor quality VHS, probably multiple generations, then subjected to heavy digital compression.

@panamhistoricalfoundation 6 лет назад

Shaun: You are exactly right! The restoration of aging film is expensive and requires painstaking and knowledgeable efforts by professionals, using very expensive scanning gear. But it's achievable. Unfortunately, folks who have, or find, old home movies - often smelling terrible thanks to the ravages of "vinegar syndrome" - take what seems to them like the best possible course of action, and have their old film transferred via the least expensive option, and throw out the original material! That closes the door on the subject - and the horse is out of the barn for good. Our foundation has managed to salvage a few such examples of unique visual history. It's a great feeling, and honor too, when we get the opportunity.