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Transpacific Flight (1953)

Transpacific Flight poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian short documentary follows a flight crew across the Pacific Ocean in 1953. The film tells the story of their journey through interviews with the people who made it.

observationalinformativegroundedstraightforwardcalmfactualperiodconversational

What happens

Transpacific Flight is a 1953 Canadian short documentary film, part of the On The Spot series made specifically for television, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The documentary involved an account of a flight across the Pacific Ocean in 1953, based on first-person interviews of the flight crew. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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