XD9847 1926 Pathe Film Documenting Richard Byrd’s Successful First Flight Over the North Pole

“BW-Silent-1926”, “American Polar Triumph”, “?????????????????????”, “The Official and Complete Motion Picture Record of the First Flight over the North Pole”, 1926, Pathe, Photographed by… Robert E. Donahue & Willard Vanderveer & Leslie Wyand”, might be titled “With Byrd at the South Pole ; First flight over the North Pole” but unsure???

“For 300 Years the North Pole has been the goal of hardy adventurers of all nations, Greely, Nansen, the Duke of the Abruzzi”, “Of all those who sought the Pole by sea and sledge, only one, an American naval officer, succeeded. Commodore Robert F. Peary, U.S.N.”,

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