The Conquest of the Air
movie
Released December 01, 1931
Genres:
Overview
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.
Cast
Frederick Culley
as
Roger Bacon
Laurence Olivier
as
Vincent Lunardi
Franklin Dyall
as
Jerome de Ascoli
Henry Victor
as
Otto Lilienthal
Hay Petrie
as
Tiberius Cavallo
John Turnbull
as
Von Zeppelin
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Charles Lefeaux
as
Louis Bleriot
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Bryan Powley
as
George Cayley
Alan Wheatley
as
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
John Abbott
as
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Charles Frend
as
Narrator (voice)
Edward Ashley
as
(uncredited)
Crew
Zoltan Korda
as
Director
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Alexander Korda
as
Producer
Alexander Esway
as
Director
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John Monk Saunders
as
Director
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Alexander Shaw
as
Director
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Peter Bezencenet
as
Editor
Charles Frend
as
Supervising Editor
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
as
Story
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John Monk Saunders
as
Writer
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Nigel Tangye
as
Associate Producer
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Wilkie Cooper
as
Cinematography
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Hugh Gray
as
Writer