# 1920s-30s NEWS HEADLINES PAN AM CHINA CLIPPER SS MORRO CASTLE SHIPWRECK MOS 68264

This silent compilation of news footage from the 1920s and 30s was released to the home market by Castle Films. It begins with footage of the Pan Am Clipper inaugurating service between California and China as the " China Clipper ". The aircraft shown is a Martin M-130, a commercial flying boat designed and built in 1935 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways. Three were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. All three had crashed by 1945. A similar flying boat, (the Martin 156), named Russian Clipper, built for the Soviet Union, had a larger wing (giving it greater range) and twin fins. Martin named them the Martin Ocean Transports, but to the public they were the "China Clippers", a name that became a generic term for Pan Am's large flying boats – the Martin M-130, Sikorsky S-42, and Boeing 314. At 1:30 the film shows Africa and native peoples perform a dance which is quite beautiful to watch (and the title card dares call them "savages!") At 2:45 a huge stockyard fire is shown and at 3:37 a gigantic fire in an oil refinery or pumping station. At 4:00 the S.S. Morro Castle is seen on fire. The Morro Castle was an ocean liner of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for voyages between New York City and Havana, Cuba. The ship was named for the Morro Castle fortress that guards the entrance to Havana Bay. On the morning of September 8, 1934, en route from Havana to New York, the ship caught fire…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/68264WingsToOrientMosVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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