6 1/2 Magic Hours (1958)

★★★★★ · And Now...The Jet Age! · Bamaboy · 2003-03-06

Awesome movie about Pan Am's new Boeing 707 Jet Clipper service across the Air Ocean of the Atlantic. The music throughout this film is truly classic. This movie made me want to rush right out and jump on board the next flight to London. Features of the "spacious cabin" jets are a big part of this film. I also enjoyed the scale model of the new Pan Am terminal at the New York Airport where passangers would move from terminal to jet under covered awnings. The passengers look overjoyed when the co-pilot announces that the jet's ground speed is now 658 miles per hour. In fact, by looking at…

★★★★★ · In 1985 , British Airways Tried To Live Up to 6 1/2 Hrs · bogo84 · 2005-03-31

I've been disappointed with airline service since the late 1980's. This film is filled with so much excitement and enthusiasm about what the future held for global travel on all airlines. I flew British Airways in 1985 to my first military assignment located in the UK and was treated like royalty. At that time, any flight I took had sharp professional 'eager to please' personnel attending to me and others. But by the 1990's, I dreaded any flight on an airplane because airlines started cutting back due to economics. Flight attendants and airport personnel have in general became openly rude and…

★★★★★ · Ahhh...The Good Ol' Days · JSBejma · 2012-09-29

Two doors into the plane and two to go out; and this was long before people started dragging every piece of crap they own onto the plane and taking a half hour rounding it up when you land. You could light up a delicious ciggie after a sumptuous meal and hey! nobody'e dying of 2nd hand smoke - or even pretending to! Well dressed people, almost all of them HWP, that obviously have bathed in the past 18 hours, probably all wearing underwear and socks, and then you get to England and there are no burkas bums or hippies interrupting your enjoyment of what was once "jolly old England." The one…

★★★★★ · 12 1/2 magic Minutes! · Spuzz · 2002-12-08

In this deliriously great film, Pam An goes overboard to tell you how wonderful Trans-atlantic travel is with it's new jet clipper plane. I mostly dug the new innovations, such as the amazing powder rooms onboard, and the guy making PLAYING CARD HOUSES while onboard... RIGHT! Interesting pre-examination of plane culture, especially after 9/11 is always very interesting to see, and this excellently preserved film is a delight to behold. Hiighly reccomended.

★★★★★ · Flying above the weathuh in a Jet Clippuh! · Pithecanthropus · 2012-01-13

What a fun film. I happen to own a vintage 1960 World Book Encyclopedia, and in the "Airplane" article there's a picture series entitled "A Trip In A Jet Airliner From New York To Paris". And I recognize many of the same people from there in this film, from which those stills were obviously taken. As for the narrator, I don't think he sounds 'snooty' as alleged by the official review. I think, instead, he has a slight speech impediment much like Barbara Walters'. Just like any other flight, except "no airplane was used"--sounds like about ten years later in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury and…

★★★★★ · BOSTONIAN VOICE-COACHED ACCENT? Ahh - NOT Arehh · C-CUBED · 2004-09-21

Indeed the way it was. I always longed to fly PanAM - it represented the penultimate airline - even the name espoused high-end travel. However, being Canadian - we have Air Canada, and previously CP Air, Wardair - (Which was like Pan Am) and Canadian Airlines. All now gone except AC. I do remember my very first flight on AC in the mid 60's as a young boy returning home from London. Yes, we actually did dress up in our Sunday best! The Stewardesses (they were not called "flight attendants") were all beautiful and dressed in couture "Courreges" at the time. The mixture of fresh jet fuel mingled…