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Wings of a Continent
194116 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Raymond Spottiswoode
Production: Stuart Legg
Script: Stuart Legg
This film describes the strategic significance of air transportation in Canada. Bush pilots first pointed to the possibilities of continental aviation and today this has been developed from a game into a science. Every cog in the Trans-Canada Airlines machine counts, from the man at the weather station to the pilot at the controls. In wartime, these airways have a vital part to play, connecting the far-flung industries of the Dominion and uniting the battle front in Europe with that in the Pacific.
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Subject categories
- Transportation > Aeronautics and AerospaceAircraft and AviationMilitary Aircraft and Airfields
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Industrial Development
Credits
- director
- Raymond Spottiswoode
- producer
- Stuart Legg
- screenplay
- Stuart Legg
- camera
- Roger Barlow
- narrator
- Lorne Greene
- music
- Lucio Agostini