“ AIRLINE GLAMOUR GIRLS ” 1949 FLIGHT ATTENDANT TRAINING FILM 71702 скачать в хорошем качестве

“ AIRLINE GLAMOUR GIRLS ” 1949 FLIGHT ATTENDANT TRAINING FILM 71702

Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @periscopefilm   Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD This black-and-white RKO Pathe training film shows an 8-week flight attendant training course at the McConnell Hostess School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McConnell was featured in a 1947 Life Magazine article that detailed how the school trained young women to serve as stewardesses and deal with (among other things) "drunks, diapers and double-chins." The film follows Mary Elizabeth Drake, a Manhattan secretary, filling out an application to be an airline hostess (1:00). She describes her qualifications, including height, weight, education, and a snapshot. Mary and the chief hostess discuss her application while sitting across from each other at a desk. Mary stands in front of a sign for McConnell Air Hostess Air Stewardess School (1:26), then walks the halls looking at photos of.what are presumably hostess alumnae. At 2:00, a montage of Mary being interviewed, unpacking a suitcase on her dorm bed, filling out forms, undergoing a medical examination, getting her photograph taken, getting a haircut, and getting measured for a new uniform. An instructor points to a diagram of a plane on a chalkboard in front of a class of students (2:18). Mary points to and names aircraft parts on a model. Students study flight schedules and point to locations on a globe (2:36). Students walk in a circle and squat with books on their heads during “comportment classes,” a series of exercises designed to “improve the students before photos.” They perform balance exercises, joust, and do the conga (3:20). They go to makeup courses; narration says that “half of the 8,000 US hostesses leave aviation for marriage each year” (3:32). Pretend passengers board a model of a TWA (Trans World Airlines) aircraft during training (3:34); an instructor comments on Mary’s actions while counting passengers, and checking seatbelts. At 4:45, Mary informs the passengers that they may smoke if they wish. Mary corrects a man in a suit with a cigar, saying, “Cigarettes only” (4:52). The instructor demonstrates how to handle a tipsy passenger (make him comfortable and call the captain if he gets rambunctious). Mary serves food at meal time (5:25); the food is kept hot in casseroles and trays are to be carried sideways. Mary confiscates a bottle of liquor from the tipsy passenger’s suit pocket (6:20). Mary and her roommates study on their beds at night (6:32). During the fifth week of the course, Mary interviews with airline representatives for a job. The interviewer asks to see her hands and lift her skirt slightly. Hostess students collect mail from a school employee who stands in front of a TWA logo. Mary receives a letter informing her that she got the job (7:21). On graduation day, the class receives diplomas. During another ceremony at LaGuardia Field in New York, an instructor pins Mary’s flight wings to her stewardess hat (7:47). Mary boards her first flight as a hostess on a TWA Constellation West plane (8:03); the crew includes Bill Edwards, Jimmy Duke, Bob Donovan, and Laura Draper. Credits: Narrated by Andre Baruch, produced by Burton Benjamin, directed and photographed by Howard Winner, edited by Isaac Kleinerman, music by Nathaniel Shilkret, recorded by Harold R. Vivian. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com