The Conquest of the Air

5.4 1931 71 min
History Documentary

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.

About

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Directors
Alexander Esway, Zoltan Korda, John Monk Saunders, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor
Writers
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, John Monk Saunders, Hugh Gray, Peter Bezencenet

Cast

The cast behind this title

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
Charles Lefeaux Louis Bleriot
Bryan Powley George Cayley
Alan Wheatley Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
John Abbott Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Charles Frend Narrator (voice)
Edward Ashley (uncredited)
Italo Balbo Italo Balbo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Memo Benassi Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
Denville Bond Oliver of Malmesbury (uncredited)
Tom Campbell Black Tom Black (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Carrett Latham's Manager (uncredited)
Andrea Checchi Zoroastro (uncredited)

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