A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)

Directed by

Mack Sennett

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

12 min

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy from 1912 featuring a real life pilot and a woman. They get into misadventures involving an airplane.

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What happens

A Dash Through the Clouds is a 1912 short American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett, written by Dell Henderson and starring Mabel Normand. It has the distinction of being somewhat of an aviation film as Sennett employed the services of real life aviation pioneer, Philip Parmelee, a pilot for the Wright Brothers. The film provided a means through which Parmelee is preserved, as he died in a crash not long after the making. Sennett had a penchant for working with and showcasing real-life daredevils and public personalities and hired a real-life pilot, Phil Parmelee, who was a national hero at the time. He would employ Barney Oldfield in a similar fashion a year later in Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life. The prints of the movie are included in the Library of Congress and the George Eastman Museum film archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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