A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Written by:
Arthur P. Twogood
Release Date:
February 18, 1947
Original Title:
Air Transportation
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Burton Holmes Films Inc.
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 10
This vocational guidance short spotlights the rising airline industry and the various jobs it offers.
The challenge and opportunity of work in air transportation. The film goes through aviation industry job categories starting with workers on the ground: in offices, dispatching, and radio; meteorologists, mechanics, general maintenance, and cargo handlers. Then, it's on to the flight crew: hostesses, women who are single, in good health, from 5'2" to 5'6" tall, from 21 to 28 years of age, and of normal weight. It ends with pilots. For most jobs, the narrator informs us of the training and certification required. The narration also references small companies, getting one's start in the armed forces, and how to get more information from various sources.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.