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The Conquest of the Air (1931)
Directed by Alexander Esway, John Monk Saunders, Zoltan Korda, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor
History, Documentary · 1h 11m
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Cast
Frederick Culley
Roger Bacon
Laurence Olivier
Vincent Lunardi
Franklin Dyall
Jerome de Ascoli
Henry Victor
Otto Lilienthal
Hay Petrie
Tiberius Cavallo
John Turnbull
Von Zeppelin
C
Charles Lefeaux
Louis Bleriot
B
Bryan Powley
George Cayley
Alan Wheatley
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
John Abbott
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Charles Frend
Narrator (voice)
Edward Ashley
(uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Alexander Esway, John Monk Saunders, Zoltan Korda, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor
- Writer
- Hugh Gray, Peter Bezencenet, John Monk Saunders
- Editor
- Richard Q. McNaughton, Peter Bezencenet
- Producer
- Alexander Korda
Details
- Release date
- 1931-12-01
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- History, Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- London Films Productions