16, 000 Feet Up Longer Version AKA 16, 000m Up Longer Version Or 16, 000ft Up Longer Version (1924)
Interlaken, Switzerland. Title: Airplane shows power in test flight over Alps daring aviator and cameraman risk lives to procure exclusive scenes of topmost mountain recesses. Intertitle: George Ercole, Pathe News cameraman, and Lieut. Walter Mittleholzer starting their perilous venture Please see record for 16, 000 FEET UP short version as many shots are the same or similar. Some aerial shots of another biplane flying above the cameraman s plane not used in short version. Intertitle: Fighting their way through wind pockets to soar above Alpine pinnacles 16, 000 feet up More aerial shots of mountains. Intertitle: Looking down on the top of the world here the photographer s work was halted when the cold paralysed his right arm. Aerial shot of mountain peaks poking through heavy sheet of cloud. Intertitle: Literally shaving the snowclad peaks A few feet closer, and More aerial shots of mountains.
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