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"HEAVENS TO COMMERCE" 1950s AIRLINE INDUSTRY & AIR CARGO PROMO FILM 84420 HD

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Channel: PeriscopeFilm · 2014 · Education

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Produced by Stanley Neal Productions and Don Lane, this black & white educational film "Heavens to Commerce" is about the emerging airline industry and its impact on moving commerce and people. Copyright is circa 1952, as the film predates the jet era in the passenger airline sector, but shows a jet powered B-52 bomber. The film was produced on behalf of the Air Transport Association of America.

Opening titles: Air Transport Association presents Heavens to Commerce (:07-:41). Clouds in the sky. Icarus, from Greek mythology. Mercury, the winged messenger. Leonardo da Vinci created a plan for wings for everyone. Cargo is loaded into a plane. Rows of planes ready to take off. A cargo plane flies. Berlin Airlift during WW2. Boeing Jet taxis and takes off (:42-2:38). Boeing jet in the sky. TWA and United jets. Pan American jet. Jet flies over New York City. An air traffic control worker. LaGuardia Airport in Queens, NY. Planes ready to take off. Radar screens are watched (2:39-3:40). Mechanics at work at the airport. A man brings in a map and its looked at by others. A man writes on a chalkboard. Book: Laws of the United States 1938. Book is opened and leafed through. Pages from the book. 1939 Collier Trophy, aviations highest award, presented to the airlines. Cargo is put onto a plane (3:41-4:50). Soldiers near planes. Propellers spin. After WW2, people onboard a plane. Giant planes, cargo is loaded onto it. People sit and relax on luxury planes. A stewardess at work. People sit on the plane. People rest and prepare to sleep on the jumbo jets (4:51-6:10). Map of the United States. There are 31 domestic airlines currently. New York City. Washington, D.C. United plane parked on a tarmac. Passengers disembark from a United plane. helicopter service. Helicopter flies over a congested traffic area (6:11-7:18). A man on a telephone. Hawaii vacation pamphlet. People in line at an airline desk at the airport. People head to board a plane. Propellers start. Large passenger planes B-52 bomber in the sky (7:19-8:22). End credits (8:23-8:34). 

This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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