--- title: Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart Before She Vanished description: It shows the aviator before one of her two attempts to fly around the world in 1937. canonical: https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T06:18:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:04:16.841Z article:section: History og:title: Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart og:description: It is thought to be the last surviving footage of her og:url: https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c1a5887e7f7c77/698853d3428a9e7558ccda22/amelia-earhart-footage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: In this May 20, 1937 photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart twitter:description: It is thought to be the last surviving footage of her twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c1a5887e7f7c77/698853d3428a9e7558ccda22/amelia-earhart-footage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart, Made Shortly Before She Disappeared > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 10, 2015 6:18 AM UTC  In this May 20, 1937 photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif. In this May 20, 1937 photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif. Albert Bresnik—The Paragon Agency/AP by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 10, 2015 6:18 AM UTC Newly discovered footage, [published](http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/09/us/feat-amelia-earhart-photos-footage-discovered/) for the first time, shows doomed aviator Amelia Earhart before one of her two attempts to fly around the world. Her first attempt, made in March 1937, ended when she crashed her plane while taking off after a stop in Hawaii. During the second attempt, made three months later, Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean, her fate unknown to this day. The newfound film was recorded at an airfield in Oakland, Calif., and shows a happy and smiling Earhart as she poses for photos and climbs over her plane, the Lockheed Electra L-10E, reports CNN. The footage also shows her husband George Putman, her navigator Fred Noonan, and personal photographer Albert Bresnik. The grainy 16 mm film is believed to have been shot by Bresnik’s brother John and had sat on a shelf in his house for more then 50 years until his death in 1992. Bresnik’s son, also called John, unearthed the film when he was going through his father’s belongings. “I didn’t even know what was on the film until my dad died and I took it home and watched it,” Bresnik [told](http://news.yahoo.com/brief-film-taken-earharts-last-flight-surfaces-054823180.html) the Associated Press. “It just always sat it in a plain box on a shelf in his office, and on the outside it said, ‘Amelia Earhart, Burbank Airport, 1937.'” The film, now named _Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot_, will be released in July by the Paragon Agency alongside an 80-page book, written by Nicole Swinford. Swindford believes the footage was shot in May 1937, days before Earhart and Noonan set off on their fateful journey. But Richard Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, said the film was likely shot in March, before Earhart’s unsuccessful first attempt. Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was one the most celebrated figures of her day. **Read More:** [_Is This the Uninhabited Pacific Island Where Amelia Earhart Spent Her Last Moments?_](http://time.com/3904595/amelia-earhart-flight-history-disappearance-cruise-pacific-ocean/) \[[CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/09/us/feat-amelia-earhart-photos-footage-discovered/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/"},"headline":"Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart, Made Shortly Before She Disappeared","datePublished":"2015-06-10T06:18:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:04:16.841Z","description":"It is thought to be the last surviving footage of her","url":"https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/","keywords":["Aviation","History","pacific ocean","Mystery","Airplane","film"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c1a5887e7f7c77/698853d3428a9e7558ccda22/amelia-earhart-footage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c1a5887e7f7c77/698853d3428a9e7558ccda22/amelia-earhart-footage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In this May 20, 1937 photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif.","caption":"In this May 20, 1937 photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif.","creditText":"Albert Bresnik—The Paragon Agency/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/aviation/","name":"Aviation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915538/amelia-earhart-film-discovery-last-photo-shoot-disppearance/","name":"Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart, Made Shortly Before She Disappeared"}}]}] ```