The Flying Horse
'J’IIE Flying Horse has been a symbol of man’s desire for flight ami freedom through all the age's. The Greeks knew the Flying Horse as Pegasus, and there is hardly a race of man in whose folk lore it does not [day a part. Greek myth tells how leans tried Io H.v by himself on waxen wings which molted in the sunshine. The same mechanical striving for flight 'is symbolized in tin' Flying Horse which soars over the clouds in Alexander Korda's Teelinieolonr adventure spectacle. "The Thief of Bagdad." In i lie story tin- Hying horse belongs to Conrad Yeidt, portraying an evil magician. and in ref urn for it as a gift to the Sultan, he demands the potentate's daughter. At the end of rhe picture there is it scene of terrific aerial warfare in iho clouds between the Flying Horse and the Magic Carpet. which belongs to the Thief of Bagdad.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 16
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156The Flying Horse Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 16
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