The Spirit of St. Louis, a Warner Brothers feature film released in 1957, tells the story of Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean to France in 1927. Charles Eames was asked by Billy Wilder, the film’s director, to help him on set by producing a film montage and handling the second film unit. Charles directed a plane-building montage in which the Spirit of St. Louis is constructed. Additionally, while on location for the film in Nova Scotia, Ireland, Spain, Egypt, Algiers, and France, Charles captured aerial shots from an opening in the belly of a plane flown by stunt pilot Paul Mantz. He also photographed the behind-the-scenes action of movie production. A selection of these is available below.
