Here are all the films that make
up this historical collection:
6 1/2 Magic Hours ( 2.147483649e+09 BCE )
  
The beginning of the jet age was a magical time when everything was clean
and elegant. This film promotes Pan Am's jet clipper service from New
York to London and shows how nice air travel used to be before the days
of cutthroat cost cutting have reduced service.
Producer: Kahlenberg
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 12:25
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Airport America (1954)
  
Discusses how critical air travel is to the American economy and how
it is necessary to expand airport service across the country, espeically
in more rural parts of America. This film shows many small town and their
airports and shows how business people are making use of these airports
to runt heir businesses more efficiently.
Producer: Film Originals
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 13:58
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The Airport (1948)
  
Take a behind the scenes tour of a modern airport and learn all the things
that occur from the time a passenger is ticketed until the passenger leaves.
It includes showing how baggage is handled, how the food service works,
weather planning, scheduling of take off and arrivals and much more.
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:29
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Flying Businessman (1953)
  
Demonstrates how business people can make use of local airports to improve
their business relationships and grow even if they are located in a smaller
area. The film shows many different airports and facilities from the 1950s.
Producer: Film Originals
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 12:56
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Flying with Arthur Godfrey (1953)
  
Learn how an airplane operates in this guided tour that hosts Arthur
Godfrey actually flying a plane.
Producer: Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 48:02
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Look to Lockheed for Leadership
  
Demonstrates various Lockheed aircraft and how they use test pilots to
test their newest innovations and break various speed records to show
how they are developing the cutting edge of aviation technology. The film
also shows such famous air prersonalities as the Wright Brothers, Amelia
Earhart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes.
Producer: Tradefilms, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 30:50
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Letter From an Airline Pilot
  
Learn all about how an airplane operates from an airline pilot in a letter
to a passenfer. The pilot discusses the steps to prepare an airplane for
flight, how the food is prepared, how they maintain the airplanes so that
they are always safe, how they fly them even when they can't see anything
and many other aspects of airplane operation.
Audio/Visual: sound, Black & White
Run time: 22:50
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Lindbergh's Flight and Return (1927)
  
Newsreel showing aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's famous flight from New
York to Paris on his solo transatlantic flight. The newsreels ends with
his triumphant return to the U.S.
Producer: Fox News / Kinograms
Audio/Visual: Silent, Black & White
Run time: 7:04
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Flying the Lindbergh Trail (1937)
  
This Pan Am flight follows the path of a Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat on
its way from Miami to Buenos Aires. The flight starts at the Dinner Key
Sea Plane base in Miami and goes to the Caribbean Islands and then off
to South America. The film has excellent shots of the plane and the tour
and is a beautiful example of Golden Age aviation.
Producer: Unknown
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 44:37
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Air Transportation (1947)
  
This film shows all the aspects of running an airline with an emphasis
on the personnel and how it creates many jobs for a variety of skilled
and semi-skilled people for both commerical airlines and chartered/independent
airlines. You will learn the inner workings of reservations, sales, flight
crews, ground maintenance, ticket sales and many other aspects of running
an airline.
Producer: Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:01
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Kay Stinson, Aviator (1917)
 
Kay Stinson breaks the air speed record from San Diego to San Francisco
with an average speed of 66 mph on her flight in 1917.
Producer: Unknown
Audio/Visual: Silent, Black & White
Run time: 3:08
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Dole Air Race, 1927 (1927)
  
Watch the famous Dole Air Race of 1927 with a variety of famous early
aviation pioneers. The race really highlights these brave people as flying
in a race of this sort at that time period was dangerous and it shows
a crash and makes it clear that not everyone made it to the finish line.
Some of the brave aviators you will see in this race include Emory Bronte,
Ernie Smith, Arthur Goebel, William Davis, Martin Jensen, Paul Schulter,
Livingston Irving, Norman Goddard, Kenneth Hawkins, Bennet Friffin, Al
Henley, Lieutenant Knope, Miss Mildred Doran, Auggie Pedlar and many others.
Producer: Kinograms
Audio/Visual: Silent, Black & White
Run time: 9:50
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