Flying On Film

Author : Mark Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593934408
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on Film written by Mark Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded, revised edition! Airplanes and motion pictures were born within a year of one another. In 100 years they have both risen from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to robust maturity. While Hollywood's actors and directors learned the art of making movies, the aircraft industry and pilots learned how to conquer the sky. In peace and war, prosperity and depression, the airplanes and motion pictures have become a part of American culture. The relationship was symbiotic. While airplane movies helped sell box office tickets, the movies helped promote aviation. In Flying on Film movie fans and aviation buffs can find their common bond. From wooden biplanes to armadas of warplanes, from majestic China Clippers to huge 747s, from slow monoplanes to swift jets, the movies told the story of the airplane. William A. Wellman's 1927 masterpiece Wings was the first of the breed, the standard to be emulated. Flying on Film is the history behind the films. Veterans and aviators from past and present tell the real story of one of the most fascinating genres of motion pictures in Hollywood. About the Author: Mark Carlson is an aviation historian, writer, classic film buff and student of filmmaking. He has written articles for several national aviation magazines and organizations. As a docent and researcher at the San Diego Air & Space Museum and member of many aviation-related organizations, Carlson has gained an insight into the people who lived the world of airplanes and the movies. He and his wife live in San Diego.

Author : Mark Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593932190
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on Film written by Mark Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airplanes and motion pictures were born within a year of one another. In 100 years they have both risen from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to robust maturity. While Hollywood's actors and directors learned the art of making movies, the aircraft industry and pilots learned how to conquer the sky. In peace and war, prosperity and depression, the airplanes and motion pictures have become a part of American culture. The relationship was symbiotic. While airplane movies helped sell box office tickets, the movies helped promote aviation. In Flying on Film movie fans and aviation buffs can find their common bond. From wooden biplanes to armadas of warplanes, from majestic China Clippers to huge 747s, from slow monoplanes to swift jets, the movies told the story of the airplane. William A. Wellman's 1927 masterpiece Wings was the first of the breed, the standard to be emulated. Flying on Film is the history behind the films. Veterans and aviators from past and present tell the real story of one of the most fascinating genres of motion pictures in Hollywood. About the Author: Mark Carlson is an aviation historian, writer, classic film buff and student of filmmaking. He has written articles for several national aviation magazines and organizations. As a docent and researcher at the San Diego Air & Space Museum and member of many aviation-related organizations, Carlson has gained an insight into the people who lived the world of airplanes and the movies. He and his wife live in San Diego.

Author : Ron Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821257227
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stewardess is Flying the Plane! written by Ron Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'The Godfather' to 'Alien' - an illustrated look at the second golden age of filmmaking.

Author : Simon D. Beck
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622930
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aircraft-Spotteräó»s Film and Television Companion written by Simon D. Beck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora! or how French Gazelle helicopters were modified for the title role in Blue Thunder? This first of its kind reference book lists aircraft featured in 350 films and television shows, providing brief individual histories, film locations, serial numbers and registrations. Aircraft are also cross-referenced by manufacturer. Appendices provide brief bios on pilots and technicians, information on aircraft collections owned by Tallmantz Aviation and Blue Max Aviation and film credits for U.S. aircraft carriers.

Author : Stephen Pendo
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aviation in the Cinema written by Stephen Pendo and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betty Brock
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064401308
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Flying in the House written by Betty Brock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-01-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annabel Tippens seems like an ordinary little girl, with short blond hair and very good manners. But Annabel is actually quite unusual. Instead of parents, she has Gloria, a tiny white dog who talks and wears a gold collar. Annabel never wonders why her life is different, until one day a cat named Belinda tells her the truth -- she′s not just a little girl, she′s half fairy! But now that she knows the truth, will her whole life have to change?

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FAA Film Catalog written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442464895
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children’s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today’s world of traditional books, eBooks, and apps, it’s story that we truly celebrate—and this story, no matter how you tell it, begs to be read again and again.

Author : Scott C. Richmond
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145295187X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Bodily Illusions written by Scott C. Richmond and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott C. Richmond bridges genres and periods by focusing, most palpably, on cinema’s power to evoke illusions: feeling like you’re flying through space, experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. He presents a theory of cinema as a proprioceptive technology: cinema becomes art by modulating viewers’ embodied sense of space. It works primarily not at the level of the intellect but at the level of the body. Richmond develops his theory through examples of direct perceptual illusion in cinema: hallucinatory flicker phenomena in Tony Conrad’s The Flicker, eerie depth effects in Marcel Duchamp’s Anémic Cinéma, the illusion of bodily movement through onscreen space in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. In doing so he combines insights from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and James J. Gibson’s ecological approach to perception. The result is his distinctive ecological phenomenology, which allows us to refocus on the cinema’s perceptual, rather than representational, power. Arguing against modernist habits of mind in film theory and aesthetics, and the attendant proclamations of cinema’s death or irrelevance, Richmond demonstrates that cinema’s proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporary inquiry.

Author : Erik Bork
Publisher : Overfall Presss
ISBN 13 : 9781732753013
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea written by Erik Bork and published by Overfall Presss. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Erik Bork (HBO's BAND OF BROTHERS) presents the seven fundamental characteristics of a great story in any medium. Writers tend to jump into the writing too quickly, without knowing they have a flawed central idea. This book is all about ensuring that doesn't happen!