This is our Amelia Earhart Short Film that we did for our History Through Film Class! Hope you like it!

This project was created by Alexa and Melody. The script was written by Alexa, and Melody did the video editing.

Cast:
Amelia Earhart: Alexa
Fred Noonan and Narrator: Melody
ITASCA: Kenzie
Search Party: Holly and Yu Meng
Reporter: Kaycee

Big thanks to everyone who helped out! We’re really proud of this project and we had a lot of fun doing it!

Music used during the credits is royalty free music by Kevin Macleod.

Here are the 33 facts we incorporated in this film:
1. In 1937, Amelia Earhart decided to be the first woman to fly around the world
2. For the flight she had to repair her severely damaged plane (Lockheed Electra)
3. She said “I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it”
4. Earhart is joined by her navigator Fred Noonan
5. Fred’s navigational method of choice was celestial navigation
6. Began their 29,000-mile journey on June 1st, in Miami
7. By June 29th they landed in Lae, New Guinea
8. 22,000 miles had been completed at this point
9. Frequently inaccurate maps made navigation difficult for Noonan
10. Their next stop, the Howland Island was located, 2556 miles from Lae, in the mid-Pacific
11. Howland Island is a mile and a half long and half a mile wide
12. The journey to the Howland Island was going to be their most challenging one yet
13. Every unessential item was removed from the plane to make room for additional fuel
14. The additional fuel gave Earhart approximately 274 extra miles
15. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter ITASCA, their radio contact, was just offshore of Howland
16. She said “Howland is such a small spot in the Pacific that every aid to locating it must be available” when asked why she needed the extra help
17. They took off on July 2nd, 10 a.m., local time
18. The weather conditions were poor with overcast skies and rain showers
19. Close to dawn, Earhart called ITASCA saying “cloudy weather, cloudy”
20. In later transmissions, Earhart asked ITASCA to take bearings on her
21. ITASCA sent a steady stream of transmissions, but she couldn’t hear them
22. Her radio transmissions irregular throughout the flight were faint or interrupted with static
23. At 7:42 AM the ITASCA picked up the message “We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet”
24. ITASCA tried to reply but the plane couldn’t hear
25. At 8:45 AM Amelia Earhart reported “We are running north and south” and this is the last they heard from her
26. A rescue attempt commenced and became the most extensive air and sea search in naval history
27. They spent $4 million and scoured 250,000 square miles of ocean to find her
28. On July 19th, the US government reluctantly called off the operation
29. Despite theories, no proof of Earhart’s fate exists
30. In 1938, a lighthouse was constructed on Howland Island in her memory
31. She wrote a letter to her husband in case the dangerous flight was her last
32. She wrote “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others”
33. Her birthplace, Atchison, Kansas, became a virtual shrine to her memory