Pan Am Clipper TWA Airlines Films 1930s-60s DVD

6 1/2 Magic Hours- Run time: 12:25 The comfort and delight of transatlantic air travel at the beginning of the jet age. Awesome movie about Pan Am's new Boeing 707 Jet Clipper service across the Air Ocean of the Atlantic.

Producer: Kahlenberg
Audio/Visual: Sd, C

Air Transportation- (1947) Run time: 10:01 Workings of a commercial airline before air travel became a mass phenomenon. This 50s vocational guidance film outlines the various kinds of jobs available in the airline industry.

Producer: Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W

Flying Businessman- (1953) Run time: 12:56 How businesspeople can benefit from general aviation. With many shots of flying businessmen, airports and airport and aviation facilities in the Fifties.

Producer: Film Originals
Audio/Visual: Sd, C

Sentinel in the Sky-(1955) Run time: 14:41 Modern radar for passenger aircraft. Shows how man has always reached for vision of the things beyond his sight, beginning, perhaps, with the ancient sailor who first climbed the mast to see over the horizon. In modern times the quest has led to such airborne aids as the gyro compass, horizon indicator and radio direction finding navigational systems.

Producer: Strauss (Henry) and Company, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sd, C

Plane Talk-(1965) Run time: 21:28. Shows the varied forms of communications used by commercial air carriers in confirming reservations, preparing aircraft for flight, monitoring aircraft in flight and maintaining air-to-ground contact.

Producer: Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Audio/Visual: Sd, C

When You Know- (1936) Run time: 8:31 An interesting movie with some good flying scenes of some 1930's aircraft. Overview of the steps one has to take to become a pilot.

Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W

The Airport- (1948) Run time: 10:29 Functions of the modern airport, showing all aspects of airline passenger service.

Producer: Encyclopedia Britannica Films
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W

Pan American Clipper- (1935) Run time: 3:43 Scenes of Pan American's China Clippers flying in and around San Francisco Bay, including through the incomplete towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.