Behind the Scenes at the Airport
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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-54 Skymaster
Lockheed L-049 Constellation
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.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster
Flagship Palm Springs name, but registration not found.
C-47 or Douglas DC-3 in the background left.
Unusual service door in the front left side.
Douglas DC-3-178
Douglas C-54 Skymaster
C-47 or Douglas DC-3 in the foreground.
Various aircraft
From control tower of New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. [See discussion tab]
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