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Flight 6 (1944)

Flight 6 poster
Directed by
Sydney Newman
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
10 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This 1944 documentary shows how transport planes were used to fly cargo and people across Canada during the Second World War. It explains the importance of air travel for the war effort.

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What happens

Flight 6 is a 1944 Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed and primarily photographed by Sydney Newman. The film is part of the Canada Carries On series, which ran from 1940 to 1959. Newman was also the executive producer for the series. Many of the documentaries were created as morale boosting propaganda films during the Second World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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