On December 17, 1903, three days following Wilbur's unsuccessful attempt to fly, Orville lay prone on the lower wing, Wilbur ran alongside; the estimated distance and time: 120 feet in 12 seconds. The Wright brothers photographically documented all trials, this first flight, and all subsequent flights and are known to have made their own glass plate negatives and printed from their darkroom. Wilbur or Orville would have set up the shot in advance, aiming the camera lens to the end of the sled, the point of departure. John T. Daniels, of the Kill Devil Light Station, manned the camera, and as the plane reached the appropriate position, snapped the shutter.