Wilbur Wright und seine Flugmaschine (film)

Wilbur Wright and his Flying Machine is a silent film from 1909. Its meaning is to show the first moving aerial photographs that have been taken from an airplane. He was commissioned by the French " Société Générale des Cinématographes Eclipse " on 24 April 1909 a balloon launch site near Rome. The film was restored by the " Austrian Film Archive ," and made it available again.

The Wright brothers traveled in May 1908 on the invitation of the " Compagnie Générale de Navigation Aérienne " and Léon Bollées to France to fly in Le Mans her Wright Model A and eliminate the still existing doubts about their powered flight. The conviction that it was a bluff at the reports from the U.S. was widespread, as only a few people so far had " seen the Wright Flyer " in the air. With its first flight in August 1908, which were also followed by Louis Bleriot, the Wright brothers were able to confront the allegations successful. After a stop in Pau in southern France they traveled to Italy in April and held there also air shows from. In May 1909, she returned to the United States.

The film begins with a recording Wilbur Wright, who starts the motor. A wizard (probably Orville Wright) is faced with the aircraft, which is then seen in flight. Wilbur Wright controls, a passenger flying with. You can see flybys, frontal approaches just above the camera off and landing. The flight track civilian and military observers. After 1:34 minutes an intermediate screen " shots of the flying machine from heralds made ​​of ." Again launch preparations are shown, the recordings from the plane set after just 2:00 minutes by lifting the Flyers one of the launch pad. The camera is mounted on the lower left wing next to the pilot, so the front-mounted elevator always obscured parts of the filmed in flight landscape.