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Flying Padre (1951)

Flying Padre poster
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
G
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 144 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short black and white documentary about a priest in the American southwest who uses a plane to visit his parishioners. It shows his daily routine and the ways he serves his community.

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What happens

Flying Padre is a 1951 short subject black-and-white documentary film. It is the second film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is nine minutes long and was completed shortly after Kubrick had completed his first film for RKO, the short subject Day of the Fight (1951). The studio offered him a follow-up project for their Screenliner series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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