us-005578-irn1002566
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1918-01-01
has beginning date: 1916-01-01
has end date: 1918-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1002566
note: Handwritten title from original film can:"Richthofe". Bechtler Collection Tape #3. In addition, Film IDs 2546 and 2547 were combined onto one tape. There is no PAL version of this tape.
note: Manfred von Richthofen and Werner Voss, Jasta 10, are the only pilots to whom the F1 was issued. Kurt Wolff was killed flying Richthofen's plane on September 15, 1917, while MvR was on leave in Berlin. Scenes including this plane are probably filmed in September 1917. Triplanes were grounded October 31, following many accidents, until November 28 when modifications were made by Fokker. Locations may include the following: Vicinity of Douai, France; Marckebeeke, Courtrai, Belgium; Avesnes-le-Sec, Cambrai; Awoingt airfield, Cambrai; Lechelle; Cappy; Begneux; Monthussart Ferme; Puisieux Ferme.
scope and content: Various locations and dates, probably N. France and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's"Flying Circu"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head:"RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 2. Tei" September 1917 Pilots, observers on wooden platform with dog, looking through range finders, field glasses. Town in distance, church steeple, industrial chimneys. They hurry down wooden steps. Bell mounted on wooden tower rings. Planes into action. Triplane wheeled out of wooden structure, Fok. F1 102, prototype flown by Manfred von Richthofen. 01:32:09 MvR (no medals) walks to plane, helped into his gear by Anthony Fokker and others. MvR's head is partially shaved following serious head injury July 1917. Fok. F1 102 on side of plane. Presumably late August/early Sept. 1917 when F1s were delivered to JG1 and MvR returned from convalescence. 01:33:40 Jasta 11 pilots in flying gear, closer shots, city buildings in BG (see earlier sequence on Film ID 2547 at 01:26). MvR in FG of group holding papers, pilots behind him include Eberhardt Mohnike, Karl Meyer, Eberhart Stapenhorst, Karl Schoenebeck. Pilots salute MvR, laughing, and walk off. 01:34:28 In early 1917, corrugated huts, five men exit, including Anthony Fokker and Jasta 11 pilots Karl Allmenroeder (KIA June 27, 1917), Eberhardt Mohnike? or Luebbert?, Loewenhardt?, and Hans Hintsch (KIA May 25, 1917). One pours from bottle. May also include Willi Reinhard or Georg Simon at far right. Men walk up & past camera. LS, trucks in BG. 01:35:10 Mess time; brick building in BG, men get food. Germany's top pilots gathered at aviation testing center at Adlershof, outside Berlin, mid-January 1918, permanent structures in BG. 01:35:26 CU, Lt. Otto Fritz …
title: A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's"Flying Circu", WWI aces