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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ...
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"Test Pilot"

Date: 1938
Description: A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p...
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"Air Circus" Product Placement

Date: 1928
Description: "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring...
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"Men with Wings"

Date: 1938
Description: Beaver Dam's favorite son Fred MacMurray (right) co-starred with Ray Milland and Louise Campbell in "Men with Wings," a 1938 Paramount release that traced ...
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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc...
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"The Kiss" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss."
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Plane Crash Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Six people crawl out of an airplane that is in the water. The scene is part of the film "Foreign Correspondent."
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin grinning and shaking hands with a man in a dark suit. They are at an airfield next to a plane. Perhaps this is Chaplin's arrival for the Ne...
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North by Northwest lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1959 film "North by Northwest" starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. The card shows Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) being chased by a c...
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Warner Baxter and Billie Dove in The Air Mail

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Description: Warner Baxter and Billie Dove stand in front of an airplane in a scene from the 1925 film The Air Mail. They are in a half-embrace and both have an arm up...
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Storm Over the Andes still

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Description: A man helps Jack Holt put on a parachute in a scene from the 1935 film Storm Over the Andes. Two men in the background, one in a plane and one standing by...
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Johnny Comes Flying Home lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1946 film Johnny Comes Flying Home. Harry Morgan and Charles Russell pilot a plane while Richard Crane stands between them. They are a...

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