

The Conquest of the Air
DirectorsAlexander Esway, Zoltan Korda, John Monk Saunders, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor
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

Frederick Culley
Roger Bacon

Laurence Olivier
Vincent Lunardi

Franklin Dyall
Jerome de Ascoli

Henry Victor
Otto Lilienthal

Hay Petrie
Tiberius Cavallo

John Turnbull
Von Zeppelin
Charles Lefeaux
Louis Bleriot
Bryan Powley
George Cayley

Alan Wheatley
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

John Abbott
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier

Charles Frend
Narrator (voice)

Edward Ashley
(uncredited)
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