Good morning! Today I am going to be looking at an older documentary that was posted a while back about Amelia Earhart. This is a documentary about the enduring mystery of her disappearance and how her sister worked to keep Earhart’s legacy going. The documentary is called Amelia: The Tale of Two Sisters. The run time for this documentary is 44:02.
Society was changing and men were now taking to the skies in airplanes. Women were demanding more rights and were finding achievements in aeronautics. One such woman was Amelia Earhart. Earhart was attracted to aviation and through determination and hard work, she would become the most famous aviator at the time. She would inspire female aviators in future generations. Her sister Muriel would not only champion her sister Amelia but would keep Amelia’s legacy alive. To this day, people are still looking to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. Amelia Earhart was the most famous woman in the world. Her courageous spirit resonated with people and they would hang on her every word. The story here begins with her disappearance and the Itasca. Amelia and Fred Noonan were working on her circumnavigation of the globe and she was planning on refueling at Howland Island. However, she and her navigator never arrived. Amelia’s niece, Amy Kleppner recalls seeing the headlines about Amelia’s disappearance. The search for Amelia immediately started and continued on into the present day. After World War II, more theories developed. There were three main theories about Amelia’s disappearance. The first theory says that she ran out of gas because was off course and crashed into the Pacific. Amy recalls that this was the popular theory. The second theory is that she was forced down and captured by the Japanese. The last theory was that she landed on an inhabited island where she would have survived a few days. Ric Gillespie, one aviation expert enjoys solving aviation mysteries, but never wanted to explore the Earhart mystery. However, there were people that brought up her radio transmissions. This prompted Ric to do more digging and it took him and a team to an inhabited island where there were airplane parts were discovered. One expert pooh-poohs the searches and just wants to focus on the woman. After this, we explore Amelia’s family. She had a younger sister, Muriel. They were both voracious readers and were tomboys. They enjoyed sports and were always outside. Amelia was known as “A.E.” in her family. However, the family constantly moved when Mr. Earhart lost his job. The girls would throw themselves into their studies. Eventually, the family moved to California and it was here that Amelia discovered her love of flying. George Putnum entered the picture when Amelia, her mother, and Muriel moved to Massachusetts after Earhart’s divorce. He encouraged her to fly and became her promoter. She became the first woman to ride in a plane across the Atlantic. The pair would eventually marry, but Amelia would retain a lot of her independence and she would continue to follow her love of flying. Eventually, she would eventually become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Due to the conditions, she was flying in, she ended up in Northern Ireland. Other feats would soon follow and she would become the first woman to fly from Hawaii to California. She had bigger goals and she would want to fly around the globe. This round-the-world trip would be her last. Why did she disappear? Where did she disappear? What are the long-standing theories about her disappearance? How did Muriel take her disappearance? What would Muriel do to keep Amelia’s legacy alive? What about the searches that go on in the area where she went down? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more. I really enjoyed the tidbits and stories that Amy Kleppner provided throughout the series. She could carry a documentary about Amelia Earhart on her own with all the stories she could tell or potentially tell about her aunt. This was a very well documentary about Amelia and her sister and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It would be something that I would show to a history class or recommend to a student doing a project on Amelia Earhart.
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