Flying Businessman

Duration: 14 min.

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Film Originals

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: VS night shots of airline neon signs at airport (Western Airlines); VS people at airport counter, clerk; VS flight attendants and passengers inside airplane (good); People receiving service, passengers talking, etc.; 2 businessmen talking in adjoining seats; Businessman-types disembarking from plane down stairway; VS air taxi service; VS Air Taxi service signs; VS U-Drive and Rent-a-Car signs; VS People being picked up by airport courtesy cars; Businessman getting into courtesy car; VS courtesy cars driving; Men entering St. Louis Post-Dispatch plane; Secretary transcribing on plane; CU executive dictating on plane; CU pencil pointing out details on blueprint of corporate plane; CU woman applying lipstick in mirror on corporate plane; CU executive taking off glasses thoughtfully while riding on plane; CU executive talking on air to ground phone, handing papers to subordinate; Executive adjusting air flow; Man washing face in bathroom; VS executives on rural airstrips; Sheep rancher forcing sheep into trailer; VS various kinds of businessmen who might own planes, some shown with planes (good), narrator explains who they are; Flight student / lesson / instruction sequence; Businessmen inspecting plane (pre-purchase or pre-flight lesson); VS instructor and businessman engaged in flight instruction; CU hand checking instruments on Cessna (CU Cessna wheel in front of frame); CU brown shoes with holes in them depressing pedals; VS flight instruction, seen from inside and outside the aircraft; Student and instructor sitting in café, served by waitress; Instructor watching student; Aerocar sequence (good!) (futuristic family or small-business airplane meant for personal transportation); last few minutes not fully logged

Complete Record: VS night shots of airline neon signs at airport (Western Airlines); VS people at airport counter, clerk; VS flight attendants and passengers inside airplane (good); People receiving service, passengers talking, etc.; 2 businessmen talking in adjoining seats; Businessman-types disembarking from plane down stairway; VS air taxi service; VS Air Taxi service signs; VS U-Drive and Rent-a-Car signs; VS People being picked up by airport courtesy cars; Businessman getting into courtesy car; VS courtesy cars driving; Men entering St. Louis Post-Dispatch plane; Secretary transcribing on plane; CU executive dictating on plane; CU pencil pointing out details on blueprint of corporate plane; CU woman applying lipstick in mirror on corporate plane; CU executive taking off glasses thoughtfully while riding on plane; CU executive talking on air to ground phone, handing papers to subordinate; Executive adjusting air flow; Man washing face in bathroom; VS executives on rural airstrips; Sheep rancher forcing sheep into trailer; VS various kinds of businessmen who might own planes, some shown with planes (good), narrator explains who they are; Flight student / lesson / instruction sequence; Businessmen inspecting plane (pre-purchase or pre-flight lesson); VS instructor and businessman engaged in flight instruction; CU hand checking instruments on Cessna (CU Cessna wheel in front of frame); CU brown shoes with holes in them depressing pedals; VS flight instruction, seen from inside and outside the aircraft; Student and instructor sitting in café, served by waitress; Instructor watching student; Aerocar sequence (good!) (futuristic family or small-business airplane meant for personal transportation); last few minutes not fully logged, FLYING BUSINESSMAN. National Assn. of State Aviation Officials. Made by Film Originals. 14 min., sd., color, 16mm. Kodachrome. © George Oliver Smith & Helen Stanfield Smith d.b.a. Film Originals; 15Sep53; MP5998.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.