~BOOK EVENTS~
Spring, Venice, CA
The Daredevil Who Fell from the Sky "An aero swashbuckler of the highest caliber, B.H. DeLay seemingly packed the precision of a neurosurgeon, the strategizing skill of an Army General, a choreographer's theatricality and the nerves of steel. Before his tragic demise at the age of 31, DeLay had launched himself into aerial stunt crafting for the movies." ~Delores Hanney. Author and representative of the Venice Historical Society, Elayne Alexander, previously gave a presentation about Aviator Actor "Daredevil DeLay".
September 1st, Hollywood, CA
"AVIATORS IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD Behind-the-scenes" Presenting to Aviators, Actors and Directors in Hollywood at CINECON. Legendary Hollywood Historian and book contributor Marc Wanamaker also presented.
Tuesday April 13th, Skypark Airport
"AVIATORS IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD & 1st Star Aircraft" Presented & book signed at vintage aviation specializing Sonoma Skypark. Featured the motion picture favorite Curtiss "Jenny". Shared daring film footage and behind-the-scenes inspiring motion picture precision pilot stories. In between presenting, daringly accepted being aerial stunted!
Friday April 24th, Essanay Theatre & Museum
Lost Squadron showing at ESSANAY Niles Theatre
(Motion picture influenced by "Daredevil" DeLay's unsolved mystery. Written by his crew pilot "Crash King", Dick Grace. See Aviators in Early Hollywood book for sabotage details: pages 118-119)
Saturday May 16th, Essanay Theatre & Museum
WINGS 1st Academy Award Best Picture Event
Screening and Anniversary Celebration at Essanay Niles Theatre! Shawna Kelly presented about aviator performers and introduced both WINGS & Actor William Wellman Jr. She also signed books along with four time Academy Award winner Ben Burtt and Actor William Wellman Jr. The father of Wellman Jr., Director William Wellman, is the winner of the very first Best Picture Academy Award - for WINGS!
Saturday June 6th, Boone's Historic Forest Home Farms
"Author Barnstorming and Booksigning" --at American Hero Daniel Boone Descendant's Historic Farm: Forest Home Farms (in the SF East Bay Area) Details
July 10th-12th, Castro Theatre
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Book signing, along with Actor William Wellman Jr., at the Academy Award winning WINGS featured film festival.
Author Shawna Kelly book signed at Fleet Week in San Francisco!
This is the author's video of Hall of Fame aerobatic aviator Sean D. Tucker from the ORACLE TEAM performing the outside loop at FLEET WEEK San Francisco! Tucker is enduring negative 6 G-forces pushing him out of the cockpit during his execution of the infamous outside loop!
Author Shawna Kelly Presenting in Hollywood
Here are images from author Shawna Kelly presenting about her book AVIATORS IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD to Hollywood Actors, critics, and Hollywood Historians at the CINECON Classic Film Festival. See~ hollywood-aviators-at-cinecon-in-hollywood.php
The "Hollywood Aviator Squadron" group photos includes classic Hollywood aviation hotshots! From left to right: actor Bartley Bard (actor whose father was actor Ben Bard who was married to the "Thriller Queen" Ruth Roland -she starred in early aviation thrillers), Doc Aeronut (Hollywood Aviator Historian), Shawna Kelly (Author and Great-granddaughter of "Daredevil" DeLay), (head above Shawna is a Hollywood professional), John Underwood (Motion Picture Aviation Author), Giacinta Bradley Koontz (Aviation Author), Jonna (Hoppes) Dolittle (Author and Granddaughter of celebrity aviator Jimmy Dolittle), and William Wellman Jr. (Actor, Author, and Son of William Wellman Sr. who directed the 1st ever Academy award-winning Best Picture aviation epic of WINGS.) Marc Wanamaker (leading Hollywood Historian presenter and book Author) is kneeling in front.
The event went so well that an impromptu photo shoot and reception began afterwards. Quite meaningfully, the living legacy of epic Hollywood aviation, William Wellman Jr., was full of high praise for the presentation!