Letter to A Pilot

Letter to A Pilot

Rejissyor: RKO-Pathé, Inc.. Great footage of airline operations circa 1950. Stock shots to be logged. 21:27:55:28 VS, CU disembodied hands shuffle through mail; cuts to same letters in mans hand, man walks away from camera, sits in chair, children playing on floor; mother sends children to bed, little boy and girl kiss father goodnight; man opens letter. Man sitting at couch, with typewriter on coffee table begins to type out letter. 21:29:11:14 VS aerials of airplanes flying above the clouds. Aerial above 1950s TWA plane. 21:29:33:03 Woman at desk wearing antique phone headset answering calls; CU woman writes notes on paper and places paper on conveyor line; notes comes out of shoot and is picked up by female telegrapher who then types out the note. 21:30:02:15 VS man walks up to check-in counter at airport, counter is lined with model airplanes; woman hands man his ticket; Bus pulls up to airport; people exiting TWA gate onto runway; LS TWA Constellation airplane; Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California; great shot inside planes being built inside giant Lockheed production warehouse; VS pieces of Constellation airplane during assembly in Lockheed plant; great shot flight gear test in warehouse, MS man gives thumbs down. Constellation plane taking off of runway. 21:31:41:11 Stewardess walks down center aisle in airplane toward camera to serve lunch. 21:31:56:27 Great shot male and female taste testers for airplane food eating in test kitchen; various people takes bites then make notes. Three women in kitchen packaging airplane food; VS women in kitchen cooking, baking, and plating airplane food; CU disembodied hands load food, including cartons of Carnation milk into pushcarts ready for flight attendants to serve food in; forklift delivers food to door on the tail of the plane; aerial of Constellation plane in air; man hands tray to stewardess; CU man looks out window; VS aerial of the Grand Canyon, aerial of plane flying above the Grand Canyon. 21:34:54:17 Back of students in aviation schoo

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