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A Great Day for Flying = Une Envolée magnifique

Item number (ISN):

94313

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1948

Item number (ISN):

94313

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CRAWLEY FILMS LIMITED

Accession:

1983-0373

Media:

Film

Original title:

A Great Day for Flying

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1948

Release date:

1949-01

Production company:

English version
Crawley Films Limited

Production credit:

director, George Gorman; producer, F.R. Crawley; scenario, Quentin Brown; photography, Thomas Glynn; sound, Rod Sparks; music, Robert Fleming; animation, Grant Crabtree; Dorothy Munro

Sponsor:

Trans-Canada Air Lines

Description:

A companion film to MR. BARNABY SLEEPS IN THE SKY (P-0172), the film's aim is to set potential passengers minds' at ease about other aspects of flying than pilot competence. Using a painting of J.A.D. McCurdy and the flight of the Silver Dart in February 1909 as a focus point, the narrator explains the job of the flight dispatch officer, the air traffic controller and the meteorology section of the Department of Transport. Detailed explanations of fuel consumption calculations are given, as well as all available methods of aerial navigation, including pilotage, dead reckoning, celestial reckoning (as methods of visual flying) and radio beam signals, Loran beacons, radio compass and radar landing systems (as methods of instrument flying).

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Additional information on this film may be available in the production file (Manuscript Division MG 28 III 99, Volume 1).~2. The flight plan which appears in the film is dated August 14, 1948 and is probably the actual date that sequence was shot.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

78752

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8330-0180/004
8330-0180/005

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.9%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

78762

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8330-0180/006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

78763

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8330-0180/100

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
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Date modified:: 2024-07-24