# Chicago Photographed from Ray Knabenshue's Dirigible Air Ship

(This film is silent)

National Archives Identifier: 95608 Local Identifier: KNAB-KNAB-201 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/95608

From: Series: Motion Picture Film, 1914 - 1914 Collection: Roy Knabenshue Collection, 1914 - 1914

This item was produced or created: 1914

Scope & Content: On the first successful passenger dirigible flight in the United States. Shows the dirigible leaving its hangar, ascending, in flight, and being berthed. Aerial views of Chicago include suburban residential districts, parkways around the city, public beaches, harbor scenes, golf courses, railroad yards, downtown office buildings, and tenement districts.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM) National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540

Email: mopix@nara.gov

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1914
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: US National Archives
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Photographed_from_Ray_Knabenshue%27s_Dirigible_Air_Ship.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: US National Archives
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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