I post in this thread because it concerns a film of a takeoff of the 1934 prototype Electra Model 10A, X233Y, from Lockheed Airfield, Turkey Crossing plant, Burbank -- the same airstrip from which Earhart's Electra first took off in July, 1936.
The 1934 prototype Electra Model 10A, X233Y, c/n 1001, was recently introduced to us by Ric Gillespie in Chapter One, page 4 of Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Electra:
https://tighar.org/Publications/Books/ElectraBook/Electra_Chapter_1.pdf Now Dan Brown has sent me this link to a fascinating two-minute film of that prototype taking off from the Lockheed Airfield in Burbank (aka Turkey Crossing and Plant B-1). The film was made on the day of the plane’s first test flight, Feb 24, 1934, for Fox Movietone News.
http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A9629This video certainly helped me to visualize the first takeoff of Earhart’s Electra from that very same airstrip, two years and five months later.
Kudos to Dan Brown for this great find!
Here’s the info provided on that University of South Carolina webpage:
Title: Lockheed Model 10 Electra prototype--outtakes
Item Title: Fox Movietone News Story 21-332
Temporal Coverage: Filmed on February 24, 1934.
Description: Various scenes of a prototype Lockheed Model 10 Electra airplane (a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane). Scenes include the airplane being prepared for flight, the engines "warming up," and the airplane taxiing, taking off, and in flight. The experimental registration number for the airplane was NX233Y; the standard registration number was NC233Y.
Silent or Sound: Sound
Addendum of Nov 30:
To see that the location of this film is the Lockheed plant and airstrip at Turkey Crossing, and not the United/Union Air Terminal one mile to the west, note that the same small Lockheed hangar that we earlier identified in the background of the Amelia Striding photo (see Bill Mangus’s reply # 27 above) also appears in the background at second 31 in the film. Then note also that the airstrip as the prototype takes off is adjacent and parallel to elevated RR tracks. This is true of the Lockheed airstrip, but not of any of the 3 runways at the United/Union Air Terminal.
According to this Los Angeles Times story, the plane was to be flown over to the United Airport to be on public display the next day (Sunday Feb 25):
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7659768/electra_initial_test_flight/