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Airport in the Jet Age - Second Edition (1962)

1962 · Short film · 10 min

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Copyright 1962. Opening titles: Airport In The Jet Age (Second Edition: Airport). Mr. Stuart parks his 1961 Ford station wagon (:06-:35). Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower. Two air traffic controllers converse. A jet takes off and is seen clearly from ATC. Los Angeles Tower. Mr. Stuart gives airplanes permission to land. Pan American 707 jumbo jet lands. United jet taxis. Jumbo jet takes off. Aerial shot of the terminal (:36-2:19). Plane from Chicago to Los Angeles lands. Jetways or jet bridges mate with a United Airlines 727. As people exit the plane, fuel is put into the plane and mechanics check the plane. Flight crew for the next use of the plane reports in. Weather map is sent for them to review (2:20-3:47). Weather maps from earlier show wind and storms. Pilot and Co-Pilot look over the maps. Dinners are being prepared, assembly line style, in a kitchen at the airport. A Los Angeles Airways helicopter comes in for a landing. L.A. Airways helicopter. United jet takes off. A taxi pulls in and a man exits. A salesman comes into the airport, he needs to go from LA to NYC. A ticket salesman uses a punch machine that is tied into a central computer to keep track of all tickets sold. Bonanza Air Lines Fairchild F-27A plane (3:48-5:54). (Bonanza operated from 1945 until it merged with two other local service airlines to form Air West in 1968.) The Williamson family is flying to NYC as well. Luggage is weighed and tagged with a destination tag. Luggage is sent down a system of…

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Running time
10 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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