https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f275a022-fa60-4f40-9617-4eb96e2f1f8d Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Glad you enjoyed it! Subscribe and consider becoming a channel member https://youtu.be/ODBW3pVahUE This short novelty film, "Formation Flying" was sold in the 1920s. It and a series of films released by Hollywood Film Enterprises and Excel accompanied a toy projector that used a household light bulb. This film shows 1930s U.S. Navy airplanes including TBD Devastator torpedo bombers (the Navy's first all metal aircraft) and Grumman F3F biplanes, flying in formation over San Diego. The TBD Devastator was the first American carrier-based monoplane to be widely used, the first all-metal naval aircraft, the first with a completely enclosed cockpit, the first with power-actuated (hydraulically) folding wings Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRrbqHTet4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:19:33 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f275a022-fa60-4f40-9617-4eb96e2f1f8d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.