Routine Flight (1955)

Directed by

Gordon Burwash, Grant McLean

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

29 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows a visit to an airline maintenance center as it prepares to work with a new airplane model. It uses interviews with staff and crew to relay the details of the operation.

informativeobservationalmatter-of-factnostalgicearnestinstructionalmid-century

What happens

Routine Flight is a 1955 Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the On The Spot series made specifically for television. The documentary, directed by Gordon Burwash, involved an account of a visit to a Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) maintenance centre while it is involved in transitioning to a new type of airliner. Routine Flight is based on first-person interviews of the staff at the maintenance centre and flight crew on a test flight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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