Dennis Doros requests: > The Dayton Art Institute is doing a film series celebrating the 100th year of > the Wright Brothers' flight next year and would like suggestions for films on > flight -- they can be meaningful, historical or just for fun (among the many, > we also suggested Dumbo, for instance). I would love all your suggestions so > I can send them on to them. Thanks! If DUMBO, why not PETER PAN and ALLADIN too? Others that at least involve non-motor-powered flight: YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN, BALLOONATICS, the opening sequences of ANDREI RUBLEV and 8 1/2, E.T., THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR and SON OF FLUBBER Most of the following are probably pretty obvious: WINGS (winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture), HELL'S ANGELS, THE DAWN PATROL, etc. Other WWI movies, including Laurel and Hardy's FLYING DEUCES FLYING DOWN TO RIO PLANE CRAZY (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon--silent) CHRISTOPHER STRONG, with K. Hepburn as an "aviatrix" TO EACH HIS OWN (the early scenes) THINGS TO COME (Raymond Massey as leader of a post-apocalyptic rescue team, "Wings over the the World") Besides THE DAWN PATROL, Howard Hawks also did several other flying movies: an early silent--THE AIR CIRCUS, CEILING ZERO, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, and AIR FORCE Lots of other war movies, of course: FLYING TIGERS, FLYING LEATHERNECKS, etc. von Sternberg's JET PILOT STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND and other Cold War films, including DR. STRANGELOVE ZERO HOUR FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES All the AIRPORT movies, all the AIRPLANE! spoofs, TOP GUN and the HOT SHOTS movies FLY AWAY HOME Episode of TV shows such as SKY KING Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu