Aviation and aircraft were good subjects for making of films as by definition when a plane was flying it was soon out of sight of any body who was not in another aircraft. By choice the aim normally was to avoid two planes being near each other for safety reasons.
If an aircraft was not there they were the only way to show machinery in use and at work and actually moving. This makes them far more interesting than even a glossy colour leaflets.
Before television was widespread a film show was sufficient attraction to get people to travel to a place to where they could watch the films. They had probably done hard days work so the producers would ensure they were not too boring. Now of course they are fascinating not just for the aircraft actually featured but what else was shown in the background.
Films used to be a vital method of getting the sales message across. Only a very few copies were made of a particular title due to the cost of film. Once the the film was superseded the title would be deleted and the films typically discarded. These titles are typical of the sort of films that have somehow survived long enough to be rescued by the Dustbin Film Collection.
By you having your own DVD record of a film its contents can be studied without risk of damage to what could be the last remaining copy of an old film. For anybody interested in aviation they provide an insight into it was promoted at the time rather than with later hindsight .
Many other titles are listed by PAL5047 so check them out to see what appeals to your interests.
Specific details of individual films vary but use Question to Seller if you have a query. Most of these films have got a DVD made from it.
As far as we know few of these films feature on commercially available DVDs from other sources. In most cases we have still got the ORIGINAL FILM that this DVD was made from.
Cost is £12 per title
213 Trade Winds poor copy
288 Duties of a lookout (AA)
439 Formation Flying
447 Eamon Andrews First 50 years of flying
662 Concord the first flight
663 Riggers Checks on a Spitfire
678 Argosy
386 Crazy Flying Aircraft
74Aircraft Icing
150 Airborne Troop Movement
477 Wings across the World Air France
518 No Margin for Error Aircraft Accident Investigation crash safety
522 DC3 Dakota Artillery Transport. Air Transport Support Dakota
613 Hawker Siddley 748 Chadderton Aircraft factory
718 How an aircraft flies
736 Sign on again WAAF officer
804 servicing aircraft and machine guns very poor
815 Gas Turbine Film
819 Airports are our Business slow odd sound
824 Duties of Air Quartermaster Strategic
887 Coach air to Jersey
813 Senegal Air Afrique not yet converted.
1163 Travelling on Air
1273 How an aeroplane flies Pt 3
1274 How an aeroplane flies Pt 2
1350 Servicing Hurricane
1393 Air Lift To Safety
1395 Air Show 1930 silent no captions
1550 Britannia (Tropical) Trials
1525 Air Show or Circus approx 1935 silent
1838 Brush Gas Turbines
1914 Air News
1770 Ice formation on Aircraft
1998 Discord in Aircraft factory
2002 Hurricane
2211 Silent unknown Aircraft
2245 Hydraulics 1946? Aircraft lorries and plant
2352 The Airport Builders silent
2484 The Viscount