Look to Lockheed for Leadership (1940)
1940 · Ephemeral film · 31 min
Synopsis
Promotional film about Lockheed aircraft using test pilots and speed records to show how Lockheed is at the forefront of aviation technology. Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes are shown. Aircraft construction. 00:19:57 Look to Lockheed for Leadership 18707 00:20:35 Lovely shot of mountains and snow VO: "Since the very beginning, man has struggled ever onward in this conquest of time and space." Kittyhawk flight Lindbergh Feminine altitude records Amelia Earhart Howard Hughes 00:31:54 Door with label "Market Research" ** 00:34:14 90 MPH wind - desert island in hurricane/storm 00:36:47 Egg on massive "hydro-press". Egg cracks and little bird comes out **
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Details
- Running time
- 31 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0545_Look_to_Lockheed_for_Leadership
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Can You Hear Me? · Dodsworth the Cat · 2021-08-25
The narrator of this short, Bud Hiestand, spends a good portion shouting lists of airplanes and timelines. He spends the rest of the film shouting almost non-stop. It's a far cry from his industrial work almost ten years later for John Sutherland Productions, where his delivery is far more amiable. Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned the film in her newspaper column of Dec. 2, 1940, so it dates from around that time. Can anyone follow the story about how a plane is made? The aeriel photography is pretty good. Shirley Carter Burden (a man, by the way), later moved into photography and fine arts. His…
★★ · Look Elsewhere · Spuzz · 2012-09-19
A seemingly endless backslapping about the Lockheed plane corperation just doesnt know when to let up. We begin by just showing everyone who has ever broken a record on a Lockheed plane. Then the company's flying partners, then how a plane is put together, and the plans for the future. Now, spend about 5-7 minutes on each subject, and you begin to see how mindnumbing this really is. Although the film is directed by a woman, there's not much else going for it.