Behind the Scenes at the Airport

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Behind the Scenes at the Airport screen title.

Educational Documentary (1947)

Production:
Teaching Films, Inc

Short, black and white educational film that takes the viewer through the inner workings of the airport and all of the behind the scenes jobs that go into making air travel run smoothly. The film is partially scripted and follows a young boy named Ray as he experiences his first day of air travel and the pilot he befriends. This pilot becomes the narrator of the film and speaks over footage of different airport employees like mechanics, reservation clerks, pilots, ramp agents, dispatchers, and traffic control officers at work.

Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain

Taxiing at New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. [See discussion tab]

Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain of TCA-Trans-Canada Air Lines.
Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain of TCA-Trans-Canada Air Lines.
Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain of TCA-Trans-Canada Air Lines.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Douglas C-54 Skymaster of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.

Lockheed L-049 Constellation

Lockheed L-049 Constellation of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.
Lockheed L-049 Constellation of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.

Another one background:
Registration NC90922, c/n 2052. Delivered new to AOA in March 1946, named Flagship Denmark, then Copenhagen and then Oslo. Transferred to PAA-Pan American World Airways when merge in September 1950, renamed Clipper Mount Vernon. Sold to Aeroméxico-Aeronaves de México after a conversion to L-149 in 1957, registered XA-MAG. Sold to Panair do Brasil in 1957, registered PP-PDP. Brocken up in Rio in 1970.

Reg.NC90922 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Flagship Denmark of American Overseas Airlines.
Reg.NC90922 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Flagship Denmark of American Overseas Airlines.
Lockheed L-049 Constellation of AOA-American Overseas Airlines.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Flagship Palm Springs name, but registration not found.
C-47 or Douglas DC-3 in the background left.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.

Unusual service door in the front left side.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster Flagship Palm Springs of American Airlines.

Douglas DC-3-178

Douglas DC-3-178 of American Airlines.
Douglas DC-3-178 of American Airlines.
Douglas DC-3-178 of American Airlines.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Douglas C-54 Skymaster of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of American Airlines.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster of American Airlines.

C-47 or Douglas DC-3 in the foreground.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster of American Airlines.


Various aircraft

From control tower of New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. [See discussion tab]


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