1942 - EDO AIRCRAFT CORP of College Point, NY

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Filmed circa 1942 in beautiful Kodachrome color at the EDO plant in College Point, NY and at Laguardia Airport. EDO manufactured attachable floats that converted conventional aircraft into seaplanes. I determined the approximate date of filming from a viewer's comment that the particular type of star insignia seen on the C-47 was only used in 1942 (thanks, ocoee96).
My grandfather worked at EDO as a traffic manager during World War Two, during which time he probably acquired this film. I discovered it just a few years ago while archiving his collection. Grandpa was an experienced cameraman, having made many technically excellent amateur films from 1929 onward, but I can't say for sure if he had any hand in this film's production since the credits are missing.
This video replaces an earlier posting that was of inferior quality. I added the soundtrack using music from a symphony composed in 1942 by Roy Harris.

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@tomatorice46 12 жыл бұрын

Truly historical, and meaningful to us from College Point. I worked at Edo for four years during the 1960's. thank you so much for sharing.

@tommcconville4270 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic film documentation, your grandfather was a great man Robert.

@michaelchaplin2248 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I had worked at EDO around 1970-72. What a great film and great memories.

@markcantemail8018 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr Martens this is an important Video . Consolidated was in Buffalo before they Moved out West . An early big Contract was building Floats .

@Corvinae 14 жыл бұрын

Mr. Martens: This is a gorgeous film - thank you for posting it to make it available for those interested in this time & technology! It's beautiful and evocative; your grandfather did a super job.

@BillMTX1 12 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Video! I used to go to EDO to service their IBM and Kodak Copiers in the 80 and early 90. I also serviced Copiers for Grumann.

@peterlipari9132 10 жыл бұрын

That's cool to see especially since I currently reside here in College Point over on 15th ave next to the Pepsi plant over by 110 st. Interesting!!!!!!! Thanks for the "history of College Point"

@seftonwallet 14 жыл бұрын

A wonderful & historic piece of film of a beautiful aircraft, and what a fantastic innovation the floats were.

@SidFortune 14 жыл бұрын

This is an incredibly interesting and respectful presentation of rare archival footage of an amazing sea float adaptation of a WW II plane. This clean and sharp video and its symphonic accompaniment was an unexpected gift to round out Memorial Day 2010. Many thanks.

@larryfisher290 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i have a friend in my small group at church that flew the c-47 and C-46 in WWII. Bob Warren thanks for your service..

@nigelbranthwaite8471 5 жыл бұрын

Gee,what a great piece of footage really in enjoyed it,many thanks,

@glocker68 12 жыл бұрын

Wow, seeing those old hangars reminds me of going to LGA as a kid in the early 70's!! Great video. Thanks for sharing!

@davidbudka9976 8 жыл бұрын

That was some piece of engineering! Thank you for sharing this rare and unique piece of history!

@bockscar43 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visual history, never knew this C47 variant existed.

@pauldormont4470 5 жыл бұрын

Great film! Thanks for sharing!

@dougburdette2345 5 жыл бұрын

Great film, I learned something today. I never before saw a DC 3 (C 47) with floats. I bet the pilots enjoyed having it on the ground sitting level and not be a tail dragger.

@localcrew 11 жыл бұрын

This film is superb! Wonderfully shot and edited. That Kodachrome is some awesome film stock. The colors really pop. Speaking of pop, my dad was a pilot in the USAF from '44 onward and he flew the C47 quite a bit. I'm sure never with big ol' honkin' floats attached though! Man, those things were huge! Thanks for posting this remarkable footage.

@BushPilot444 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the effort to do this.

@4thstooge 12 жыл бұрын

Very high Quality video! & nicely presented w/ the music track. I really got a "feel" for those historic times, when the whole country came together for the war effort.

@MichaelOZimmermannJCDECS 12 жыл бұрын

Very interesting footage! Thks.

@robertwmartens 13 жыл бұрын

@quam12972 No problem, please go ahead and post. Considering that this film had been unseen for 60+ years, it deserves all the exposure it can get. Thanks!

@billcallahan9303 6 жыл бұрын

The Greatest Generation! No doubt! Fought a war on two worldwide fronts with filing cabinets, typewriters & one line telephones! When our nation was TOGETHER AS ONE!

@richardmartin1432 5 жыл бұрын

Great film-thanks.

@Airvid 9 жыл бұрын

Really cool! Thx for that

@UTubeGlennAR 6 жыл бұрын

:} Thank you for sharing this with us....... :}

@jimmypeters 12 жыл бұрын

Awesome takeoff, landing and taxiing footage! I didn't even know they made amphibious floats for an aircraft of this size, and I consider myself a pretty fair aviation buff!!!

@07decker 4 жыл бұрын

wow, this has to go viral

@tcvesely 11 жыл бұрын

My father worked EDO Frank, V lived on 121street, College Point.,

@tragkfshnt 4 жыл бұрын

Jeezus those things are huge, just add an outboard motor, and practically a boat.

@mazdarx7887 6 жыл бұрын

They forget to tell you the C-47's payload was only 6000 pounds, now reduce that by the floats weight and you'll see why it was just a novelty

@cindyjohnson9402 7 жыл бұрын

I got my first job there in 1980...I was 18 years old

@andressini3057 6 жыл бұрын

DAM!!!! One of the most amazing "rare films" of world war 2 that i ever found!!!!! Just amazing!!!!!and simply the most amazing film of the C-47 that i found!! Ever!!! (until now!) but seriously this ia amazing!! Any idea if the original drawings of the EDO floats still survives ????(i realy hope that yes!!!) It will be amazing if some of the C-47 that are flying today someone put it floats!!! You can imagine!!??? Wow! And what happens with the EDO company after the war?? Is still in operation??? Or it don't exist anymore?? Just amazing video Robert Martens!!! You made my day!!!!!

@johnmoulton3313 5 жыл бұрын

One used to fly out of Folsom's Air Sevice in Greenville Maine, the last time I saw it flying was in the early 2000's. To my knowledge the aircraft has been taken off floats but everything is still up there. If you look on google earth you can see it.

@jack-n-the-bots2926 7 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this film on America's most important airplane. The DC-3 could do it all. Whatever happened to the original drawings of the EDO floats for this airplane? You've done a great thing by posting this. Thank you

@robertwmartens 11 жыл бұрын

Hi April. I've looked and looked but I have yet to find any sight of my grandfather in this one, unless he is somewhere in one of the several crowd scenes. To the best of my knowledge he did not participate in the production of this particular work. By the way, your use of the term "videoing" is amusingly anachronistic considering that video tape was not invented until the 1950s! Before then all motion photography was accomplished with chemically processed film such as Kodachrome.

@wlh1usa 11 жыл бұрын

great music also

@kel12176 10 жыл бұрын

great flim

@duanelundgren7985 5 жыл бұрын

The float bottom skins forward of the step must have been .063 thick!! R-2800s would have been helpful!!!

@peterschmidt7543 6 жыл бұрын

..Go ahead and do it days. BIG smile.

@mikehayes111 5 жыл бұрын

could plane savers can use this footage for there show ? please

@DOWNwithDICTATORS2 10 жыл бұрын

In the day that @April.. is referring to would be 'filming.'

@DOWNwithDICTATORS2 10 жыл бұрын

Doesn't videoing refer to moving optical images???

@aprilmarvin9322 11 жыл бұрын

whitch one is ur grandfather is he the on e videoing all this

@fiverats1 12 жыл бұрын

WANT!

@Motormouth2112 5 ай бұрын

Classic see Hells Gate Bridge in background

@michaela.chmieloski3196 3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Martens, I hope I haven't crossed a line but for those interested further in the amphibious C-47/DC-3: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prBmrbeL2teZqqs.html.

@eeyore.official 11 жыл бұрын

NOW! put those floats on a Basler BT-67 Conversion ;)

@tragkfshnt 4 жыл бұрын

Lucas Reed I think they already did, I saw a video of it on KZfaq but couldn’t find it again, I knew I should have save that video on my playlist.

@bobbonordenskiold939 9 ай бұрын

Nice music. Not.

@mazdarx7887 6 жыл бұрын

When people don't know whats going on in a vid, they can't make a narrative, so they add shitty music.