The Conquest of the Air

Documentary 1931 · 1h 11m

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This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

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20 people

Frederick Culley Roger Bacon

Laurence Olivier Vincent Lunardi

Franklin Dyall Jerome de Ascoli

Henry Victor Otto Lilienthal

Hay Petrie Tiberius Cavallo

John Turnbull Von Zeppelin

C Charles Lefeaux Louis Bleriot

B Bryan Powley George Cayley

Alan Wheatley Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

John Abbott Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier

Charles Frend Narrator (voice)

Edward Ashley (uncredited)

I Italo Balbo Italo Balbo (archive footage) (uncredited)

Memo Benassi Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)

D Denville Bond Oliver of Malmesbury (uncredited)

T Tom Campbell Black Tom Black (archive footage) (uncredited)

C Charles Carrett Latham's Manager (uncredited)

Andrea Checchi Zoroastro (uncredited)

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