Flim Night at the Airways Museum - Fri 24 Sep

[Philthy]

Folks,

The Civil Aviation Historical Society is holding its inaugural Film Night at the Airways Museum, Essendon Airport, on Friday September 24.

The programme includes a selection of short historical aviation films from the archives. Entry is by gold coin donation and free tea and coffee are provided.

Details at www.airwaysmuseum.com (http://www.airwaysmuseum.com)

[Philthy]

The Airways Museum website now has a short clip from the film Aeradio, which is one of the films to be shown next week. It's a position report, 1950s-style.

Go to the Airways Museum website (link above), then to the 'What's New' page and follow the link.

[Philthy]

The programme is as follows:

1. Flight Plan (1950) B&W, 24 min. A review of Civil Aviation in Australia today. Air Traffic Control, airfield construction and stringent testing of aircraft components are shown, together with the Flying Doctor services and what Civil Aviation means to people in the outback

2. Aeradio (1953) B&W, 19 min. Illustrates the set up of Aeradio Stations throughout Australia, with methods of control to safeguard flying operations.

3. Aircraft at Work (1966) Col, 16 min. This film shows the contribution of aircraft to the development and economy of Australia. Reference to Lawrence Hargrave, Box Kites, historical film 1911, World War I, 1919 Ross & Keith Smith, 1921 1st Airmail Service, start of Qantas, 1928 Kingsford Smith, 1934 1st Regular Mail delivery, modern day airport, outback, Flying Doctor, student pilots.

4. Aviation Australia (1970s?) Col, 19 min. Public relations film about aviation in Australia, escpecially the role of the Department.

[EPIRB]

Has the museum given any consideration to selling these films on DVD or is there copywrite issues that prevent it?

[Obiwan]

Yes, I'd buy them. Melbourne is a bit too far for a night at the flicks...:ok:

[Philthy]

Nothing on DVD yet, though we are hoping to digitise the best bits of our film collection eventually. Incidentally, there is a catalogue of our collection on the Airways Museum website.

As for selling them; well there are copyright issues to work through before we can embark on that path.

Big night tomorrow....