A good way to spend 20 minutes on a restful afternoon is with an industrial short featuring:
• A voice-over by Del Sharbutt.
• Music by Jack Shaindlin.
• Newsreel clips, especially overhead shots of scenery.
• Nazis losing.
Business Screen magazine profiled Of Wings and Men in its issue dated March 1, 1946.
Of Men and Wings
■ Currently receiving wide showing is Of Men and Wings, latest motion picture of United Air Lines.
Made on a rather low budget, largely from library clips, the film is nevertheless well done. There is little of the lack of continuity too often found in the stock shot type of picture. For this G. D. Gudebrod of N. W. Ayer Co., who supervised and supplied the words, Jack Schaindlin [sic], music, and the B. K. Blake organization, who produced, can take credit.
Of Men and Wings tells the story of air transport since the inception of coast-to-coast air mail 25 years ago. As an aid in orienting the story with the times, generous use is made of old newsreel clippings. Harding's nomination in 1920, Red Cirangc galloping across the gridiron in 1924, Gertrude Ederle's channel swim in 1926, Bobby Jones' grand slam in golf in 1950 arc a few of these. Interspersed with the old newsreel shots is appropriate music: "Yes, We Have No Bananas," "Exactly Like You," etc. Other sequences show the various steps of progress in airline equipment from the old biplanes of the twenties to the latest DC-6.
Of Men and Wings is being distributed by United Air Lines through its educational department and district traffic managers.
Television around this time aired an awful lot of industrial movies to fill time. They were certainly less expensive to broadcast than even a local cooking show with crew and a host. Of Men and Wings appeared on WJBK-TV Detroit on October 26, 1948.
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