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Visually stunning and influential IMAX 70mm film made to commemorate the renovation, reopening, and renaming of the National Air and Space Museum by MacGilli...
- 27 min
- 9.2K
- BreadCrustCouncil
To Fly! is a 1976 American short docudrama film directed by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman of MacGillivray Freeman Films, who wrote the story with Francis Thompson, Robert M. Young, and Arthur Zegart. It premiered at the giant-screen IMAX theater of the National Air and Space Museum, which opened to celebrate the United States Bicentennial.
Jun 19, 1981 · With Ellen Bry, Jennifer Kaye Evans, Peter Walker. Produced as the premier presentation for the Theatre of the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, takes the viewer on an aerial tour of America from a balloon ascension in the 1800's to a venture into space.
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- Documentary, Short, History
- Jim Freeman, Greg MacGillivray
- 1981-06-19
This video clip by the Continental Oil Company re-enacts the first flight by hot air balloon. FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/Ext...
- 2 min
- 17.6K
- US National Archives
A stunning overview of transportation and flight in America, To Fly! thrills audiences as its imagery engulfs them in the sensations of flying from floating in a helium balloon to flying in an original barnstormer bi-plane to hang gliding across the sky.
Mar 22, 2022 · Andrew Warrick. 217 subscribers. Subscribed. 22. 2.1K views 2 years ago. Inspirational video about the history of flight apparently made in partnership with Conoco for the NASM when it opened in...
- 25 min
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- Andrew Warrick
Take a multi-stop journey through the history of flight in this classic IMAX adventure. Watch the Earth drop away beneath as you ascend into the sky in an 1800s gas balloon; soar across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket.
