Song of the Clouds
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Documentary (1957)
Production:
John Armstrong(Director)
Ken Cameron (Recording)
Alvin Bailey (Editor)
Edwars Van Den Enden (Photographer)
Richard Bennett (Music)
John Hollingsworth (Conductor)
The film takes the audience on a world wide tour from New York City to South America, Africa, the Mid-East and Asia. A number of travelers are watched as their journeys begin and end, while the audience is taken on a behind the scenes tour of the aviation industry.
Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
These pictures open the film.
With this colour scheme, it must be one of the Super Constellation operated by KLM since 1954. Unreadible name unfortunately.
Various aircraft
At New York International Airport ((JFK/KJFK) nowadays).
1 - Douglas DC-6/DC-7.
2 - 2x Douglas DC-6.
3 - Boeing 377-10-30 Stratocruiser of Northwest Airlines.
4 - Lockheed Constellation.
5 - Douglas DC-6/DC-7.
Boeing 377-10-30 Stratocruiser
Taxiing over Van Wyck Expressway at New York International Airport.
Note the rectangular windows characteristic of version 30 specific to Northwest Airlines.
Various aircraft
At Amsterdam Airport Schipol.
1 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
2 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
3 - Douglas DC-3/C-47.
4 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
5 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
6 - Lockheed Constellation behind another taxiing airplane, a KLM's Convair 440 very likely.
7 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
8 - Convair 440-48 Metropolitan of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
9 - Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Lockheed Constellation
Unknown airline and location.
Douglas DC-6B
Douglas DC-6 & Lockheed Constellation
At New York International Airport.
United's Douglas DC-6 to the left, tail of TWA's Lockheed Constellation to the right.
Douglas DC-6B
At New York International Airport.
Registration N6519C, c/n 43519/221. Delivered new to PAA in February 1952, named Clipper Liberty Bell. Leased to Austral Líneas Aéreas in August 1961, registered LV-PFD, re-registered LV-HHR in September 1961. Returned to Pan American World Airways in October 1962 as N6519C, after have been converted to Douglas DC-6A, renamed Clipper Bremen. Sold to AAXICO American Air Export and Import Co in May 1965. Changed to Saturn Airways after merge of the company in September 1965. Sold to Associates Capital Corp. in June 1970, then Florida Aircraft Leasing Corp. in September 1970. Leased to Americana de Aviacion in September 1970, registered HC-ATH. Returned to Florida Aircraft Leasing Corp. as N6519C in September 1971. Leased to Gibraltar South West Inc. in October 1971, re-registered N6385 in November 1971. Returned to Florida Aircraft Leasing Corp. in August 1972. Bought by Mike Tsalickis in November 1973, re-registered N6519C. Sold to Cessnyca in March 1975, registered HK-1389. Sold to LAC Líneas Aéreas del Caribe in July 1975. Written-off in February 1976, ditched into sea immediately after departure from Simon Bolivar International Santa Marta Colombia (Magdalena) (SKSM/SMR).
Unexpected equipment for our eyes today... when aviation aroused a lot of public interest.
Boeing 377-10-30 Stratocruiser & Lockheed Constellation
Douglas DC-3/C-47
Seen through the binoculars used by the young boy of the previous picture above.
Bell 47G
Registration N2467G, c/n 1447. Operated by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Other registration N2400Z in the history of the aircraft.
Equipped with floats for possible landing on water within the perimeter of New York .
Want to impress the control tower staff? ...
Lockheed Constellation below on the ground, with some Douglas aircraft to the right.
Boeing 377-10-26 Stratocruiser
In the far background to the right.
In the foreground is the 11-floor Control Tower of New York International Airport built in 1952.
Lockheed L-749 Constellation
Tarmac of New York International Airport.
Boeing 377-10-30 Stratocruiser
In the background on tarmac of New York International Airport.
Douglas DC-6 & Douglas DC-3/C-47
An Arabic speaker could help to tell which company this Douglas DC-3 or C-47 could belong to. The title inside the red sheet line doesn't match with usual colour scheme of Lebanese Middle East Airlines.
Douglas DC-3/C-47
In the far background, somewhere in South America.
Unidentified Aircraft (toy airplane)
Douglas C-47A Skytrain
Registration VT-xxx.
Unidentified Aircraft
'ATION'..Is it part of AVIATION title... and what aircraft?
Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-4-1009
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See also
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Bell 47
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Convair 240/340/440
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-7
- Lockheed Constellation
- Indian Airlines
- Japan Airlines
- KLM
- Middle East Airlines
- Northwest Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Trans World Airlines
- United Air Lines