[Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field (AWPBF) at Boeing Field, Washington, circa July 1940]

Title

[Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field (AWPBF) at Boeing Field, Washington, circa July 1940]

Description

Film footage of the Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field (AWPBF) at Boeing Field, Washington, circa July 1940. The footage opens with several AWPBF members arriving at Boeing Field via a United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 "Mainliner" aircraft. The following scenes depict the women chatting together and with others, posing for the camera, and looking over aircraft, including an Aeronca Model K (tail number NC19718) and an aircraft belonging to the Privateers Club. Mildred Filz Merrill appears in some scenes. Please note that in one scene at 00:03:14, a man appears to jokingly make the Nazi salute.

The footage is in color and is silent.

Label on container: "Karl W Jasper Wash Air and Trans Corp Boeing Field scenes, Seattle, Wash."

Date

1940-07 circa

Extent

1 film reel (4 min., 6 sec.) : silent, color ; 16 mm

Rights

Bibliographic Citation

The Floyd R. Daniel Boeing Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2010-01-20_AV_002_01

Collection Organization