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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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Cast
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Frederick Culley
Roger Bacon
L
Laurence Olivier
Vincent Lunardi
F
Franklin Dyall
Jerome de Ascoli
H
Henry Victor
Otto Lilienthal
H
Hay Petrie
Tiberius Cavallo
J
John Turnbull
Von Zeppelin
C
Charles Lefeaux
Louis Bleriot
B
Bryan Powley
George Cayley
A
Alan Wheatley
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
J
John Abbott
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
C
Charles Frend
Narrator (voice)
E
Edward Ashley
(uncredited)
I
Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo (archive footage) (uncredited)
M
Memo Benassi
Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
A
Andrea Checchi
Zoroastro (uncredited)
B
Bryan Coleman
(uncredited)
D
Derrick De Marney
(uncredited)
A
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart (archive footage) (uncredited)
C
Cameron Hall
Dr. John Jeffries (uncredited)
H
Henry Hallatt
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (uncredited)
