This is a 1940’s era, black and white movie presented by the U.S. Army Recruiting Service and the Lockheed Historical Corporation. It is called Look to Lockheed for Leadership. It was directed by Shirley C. Burden, the story and narration were done by Walter Wise, photography by Floyd Crosby. The film editor is Gene Milford, narrator John Hiestand, unit manager, Herbert E. Dow and the associate producer is Henri Chappellet. It is a Tradefilms, Inc. Production. The movie opens with snow covered mountains and tall ships sailing the ocean, 1:15. Western caravan on the open plains, 1:21. Lockheed airplane soars in the air, 1:30. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and the Wright Brothers, 1:45. The first flight takes off at Kitty Hawk, 1:56. In 1928 the Yankee Doodle reaches NY from LA, 2:09. Flown by Colonel Arthur Goebel and Harry Tucker. In 1929, Captain Frank Hawks in his Lockheed flying to New York, 2:25. Charles Lindbergh in a sea plane, 2:48 crossing the Bering sea to Japan. 1931, Ruth Nichols lands her Lockheed, Vega, 3:10. The Lockheed Vega, Winnie Mae, piloted by Wiley Post, the first man to fly around the world, 3:30. The Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh take off on a 29,000-mile journey, 3:40. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and P.G. Taylor cross the Pacific from Australia to California, 4:10. Amelia Earhart lands making a solo flight over the pacific, 4:20. Howard Hughes races around the world, 4:42. The Lockheed Electra, 5:20. The Lockheed 12, 5:30. The Lockheed Lodestar soars in the sky, 5:50. Map of the United States with original Lockheed airlines, 6:40. Map of Central America with original Lockheed airlines, 6:45. Map of South America with original Lockheed airlines, 6:50. Airline posters from the past, 6:55. Map of Africa with original Lockheed airlines, 7:12. Map of Europe with original Lockheed airlines, 7:24. Map of Asia with original Lockheed airlines, 7:45. Image of globe with Lockheed air routes, 8:35. Burbank California, 1926 – Lockheed headquarters, 8:58. Plant workers enter the Lockheed plant, 9:22. Lockheed drafting room with engineers working, 10:23. The interior of an early Lockheed aircraft commercial flight with stewardess, 11:09. Lodestar private plane interior, 11:27. The Compact 12 doubles as a private office in the sky, 11:33. The Lockheed Excalibur, wood model, 11:49. Marketing staff for Lockheed working, 12:15. Lockheed flight operation manuals, 13:20. Lockheed engineering drawings, 14:00. Wind tunnel airline models are tested, 14:10. Lockheed test flight, 14:50. Mechanic shop is shown building Airline parts, 15:30. Lockheed Hydro press cuts through metal, 15:55. Lockheed machine worker cracks an egg with a Hydro press, 17:10. Lockheed aircraft parts are cooled in large vats, 17:41. Lockheed aircraft parts are baked in large ovens and dropped in oil, 18:05. The testing laboratory analyzes metal alloys, 18:30. Lockheed diagram shows how airline parts are tested, 19:00. Spectrograph shows impurities in airline parts, 19:30. Lockheed testing airline parts to 80,000 pounds of pressure, 20:05. Lockheed x-rays its stressed parts for fractures, 20:40. The Lockheed Lodestar takes off, 21:19. Lockheed instrument testing laboratory 21:50. The Lockheed plant workers build the inside of an airplane wing, 23:00. Riveters insert and test rivets a Lockheed plane, 23:35. The main body of a Lockheed plane is constructed, 24:55. Lockheed plane flies with twin rudders, 25:20. A Lockheed plane is assembled on the factory floor, 26:00. Lockheed fuselage is completed, 26:25. Lockheed Lodestar flaps are deployed, 27:26. Lockheed Hudson bombers are shown, assembled and disassembled, 28:10. Hudson bombers fly, 28:40. Lockheed machinery at work, 29:15. The Electra, the 12, the Hudson Bomber, the Lodestar are shown, 29:45. The P-38 for national defense is presented, 30:00.

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