On a light spring day in 1937 , Amelia Earhart invited her personal lensman , Al Bresnik , to the Southern California drome where she and and her sailing master , Fred Noonan , were preparing for their endeavor to circumnavigate the earth . The icon take by Bresnik break on to become wide run across and jazz after Earhart ’s carpenter’s plane cryptically disappeared over the Pacific ocean a few month afterward . But a three - and - a - half - minute video recording taken on a 16 - millimetre camera by Bresnik ’s buddy John evanesce into obscureness , until now .
The home video , store in a plain blank box pronounce " Amelia Earhart , Burbank Airport , 1937 , " sat on a ledge in John Bresnik ’s home for 50 years until he died in 1992 . After that , it was moved to his Word ’s home plate .
" I did n’t even know what was on the film until my dad go and I lead it home and determine it , " the younger Bresnik , also named John , toldThe Telegraph . Even there , it languished for about 20 years until recently . Now , The Paragon Agency publishing household is making the full video , entitled " Amelia Earhart ’s Last Photo Shoot , " available for download along with an 80 - pageboy book of the same name . But publisher Doug Westfall said he plans to finally donate the film to a museum or archive .
The tape is remarkable , no matter what — it shows Earhart smile and playful as she skin about on top of her matching - engine Electra L-10E in a fitted jumpsuit . But there is some arguing smother when exactly the film date from . Nicole Swinford , who write the accompany book , asserts that it was take in May , just before Earhart ship on the ominous - fat journeying . But Richard Gillespie , executive managing director of the International Group For Historic Aircraft Recovery , thinks the film is from an early trajectory attempt that same yr . In March of 1937 , Earhart plant out to become the first woman to compass the Earth , but only bring forth as far as Hawaii before she crashed and had to make repairs to her planing machine .
" The aeroplane as shown in the film is very clearly the pre - repaired airplane , " Gillespie take . But whether the video date from March or May of 1937 , it is among the last — if not the very final — footage ever taken of Amelia Earhart .
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