The Conquest of the Air

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

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  Frederick Culley

  Roger Bacon
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  Laurence Olivier

  Vincent Lunardi
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  Franklin Dyall

  Jerome de Ascoli
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  Henry Victor

  Otto Lilienthal
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  Hay Petrie

  Tiberius Cavallo
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  John Turnbull

  Von Zeppelin
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  Alan Wheatley

  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
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  John Abbott

  Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
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  Charles Frend

  Narrator (voice)
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  Edward Ashley

  (uncredited)