Song of the Clouds - Air Travel in 1956 | Shell Historical Film Archive

Explore the 1956 world of air travel, a mere five decades after the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903. #Shell #ShellFilmUnit #HistoricFilmArchive #Documentary #History #AirTravel #50s #Airplane Chapters: 00:00 Opening - Song of the Clouds: Air Travel in 1956 01:00 From Kitty Hawk 1903 to 70 Million Passengers a Year 01:50 Why Flying in the 1950s Felt Thrilling and New 02:32 Who Flew in 1956? Passengers From Scotland to West Africa 03:51 Pre-Flight in 1956: Baggage, Air Mail and Boarding 05:19 Aircraft of 1956: Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed Constellation and Vickers Viscount 07:07 Pilot Pre-Flight Checks and Take-Off Procedures 08:14 Takeoff: Climbing Above Miami, Cairo, Rome and Rio 09:15 Bird's-Eye View: Bahamas, Newfoundland, Mekong and Machu Picchu 10:38 Life Onboard a 1950s Long-Haul Flight 13:38 What is IATA? How 75 Airlines Created Global Aviation Standards 14:48 Interchangeable Tickets and the Rise of Air Cargo 17:28 How Pilots Trained in 1956: ICAO Global Safety Standards 18:37 Aircraft Maintenance and North Atlantic Weather Ships Explained 20:49 Night Flying in 1956: Radio Beacons and Star Navigation 23:16 How Planes Connected Remote Towns Like Pucallpa, Peru 24:48 Air Traffic Control in 1956: Managing Crowded Skies 26:10 Future of Flight: Vertical Take-Off and 1000 MPH Jets 28:03 New Aircraft of 1957: Boeing 707, Comet 4, Britannia and DC-7C 29:00 Airports of the Future: Landings From San Francisco to Montreal 31:10 Human Impact: 70 Million Journeys in the Third Dimension --- ►Aircraft & Air Travel | Shell Film Unit - Historic Archive:    • Aircraft & Air Travel | Shell Historical F...   ►Shell Film Unit - Historic Archive:    • Shell Historical Film Archive   ►Shell Film Unit - Historic Archive - 1950s:    • Shell Historical Film Archive - 1950s   Shell Historical Film Archive Shell’s surprising and captivating Historic Film Archive dates from 1934 and covers a rich mix of topics from technology, science and engineering to craftsmanship, motorsport and travelogue. The Shell Film Unit, responsible for the content, was a highly celebrated part of Britain’s Documentary Movement. Key figures from that movement were involved, including: Jack Beddington, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, John Grierson, Kay Mander, Stuart Legg and Douglas Gordon. Its films were wide reaching, often screened in cinemas and through the non-theatric film distribution circuit, which brought film to educational establishments and organisations across the UK. While many films covered technological themes related to Shell’s activities, others were entirely unrelated and served purely to educate the general public. As Shell innovated in technologies that would provide oil and gas products for the world, the Shell Film Unit also innovated in the technological advancement of film, incorporating graphics and different forms of animation as early as the 1930s. During WW2 the Shell Film Unit was co-opted into war effort, making films for the Ministry of Information’s film division. Its prowess in technological documentary suited the MoI’s need for technical training films. While the name and the medium has changed many times over the years, the documentary tradition lives on at Shell. Its contemporary film team is part of Shell’s multi-disciplinary in-house agency, Creative Solutions. It continues making award-winning factual content that informs and educates the public, now usually released on social media platforms. For more information about Shell’s Historic Film Archive please contact: filmservices@shell.com --- Welcome to Shell’s official YouTube channel. Subscribe here to learn about the future of energy, see our new technology and innovation in action or watch highlights from our major projects around the world. Here you’ll find videos on jobs and careers, motorsports, the Shell Eco-marathon, Scuderia Ferrari, and Powering Progress, our strategy to accelerate the transition of our business to net-zero emissions. If you have any thoughts or questions, please comment, like or share. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://go.shell.com/3j0t9x2 Visit our website: https://go.shell.com/3VeP95G Like us on Facebook: https://go.shell.com/30bINMb Follow us on Instagram: https://go.shell.com/30bIMb5 Follow us on X (Twitter): https://go.shell.com/30g1T3J Follow us on LinkedIn: https://go.shell.com/30eeJ28