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Record: "Flight F-I-N-A-L" (1965)

1965 · Short film · 30 min

Synopsis

SEEKING SOUND FILMSTRIPS FOR PRESERVATION. Sound filmstrip was a 35mm film-based still image educational media format used in schools and industry. The media format is largely forgotten and very endangered. Don't know what a filmstrip is? Patrons get early access to new releases and exclusive bonus content. STAY IN TOUCH. ORIGINAL AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original high-resolution audio capture used in the video presentation is also included in this archive. NOTES Unlike many popular voices on the internet, Uncommon Ephemera does not partake in the broad, generalized bigotry against Christianity that is prevalent in Western culture today. You know the kind. Not strictly Christophobia, to extrapolate a term from the modern patois, It's more of an all-encompassing, nobody-asked pledge of atheist allegiance but with a scapegoat; an existential rant from people clever enough to know as long as they don't use Judaism or Islam to make their point they won't face any consequences. That being said, evangelical Christians can torture a metaphor like nobody else on earth. And that brings us to this exhibit. Air travel was still a privilege enjoyed largely by the rich in the mid-60s and had only begun to rival traveling by train just five or six years prior. To some it must have still seemed like magic; to McCullough, a miracle. In his grief and his deep faith, McCullough imagined a dramatic allegory whereby departed souls would literally depart on a super-aircraft, bound not for…

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Running time
30 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films