Tailless monoplane, the "Whatsit," uses unusual tricycle landing gear

Title card: "He Calls It His Whatsit, Glendale, Calif. - New tailless plane really flies! Tomorrow's air 'flivver' makes more than a hundred miles per hour and turns on a dime." / little plane taxis toward camera / takes off /VS aerials plane in sky / VS plane lands, taxis on tarmac, turns around / MS pilot inventor Waldo Waterman speaks from cockpit: "my hope that someday this little ship will become the great big granddaddy for Americans of the flivver." / Note: exact day/month not known
Title card: "He Calls It His Whatsit, Glendale, Calif. - New tailless plane really flies! Tomorrow's air 'flivver' makes more than a hundred miles per hour and turns on a dime." / little plane taxis toward camera / takes off /VS aerials plane in sky / VS plane lands, taxis on tarmac, turns around / MS pilot inventor Waldo Waterman speaks from cockpit: "my hope that someday this little ship will become the great big granddaddy for Americans of the flivver." / Note: exact day/month not known
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
611448016
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1933
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:19:22
Location:
Glendale, California, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr002020_01_01.mov