AVIATION CAVALCADE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 10

AVIATION CAVALCADE

“MEN WITH WINGS” Aeroplanes with veteran stunt pilots I at the controls will be featured in the ; technicolour film. “Men With Wings." being produced and directed by Willian A. Wellman at the Paramount studios. More than twenty aeroplanes, cf ted from the first flight of the Wright Brothers until the present time, will be seen in the cavalcade of the air. “Any thrills which will be shown on the screen will be real.” Wellman declared. “We have had more than one hundred men working for more than three months rebuilding ’planes wc searched all over the world lo find. “And no ‘slock shots’ from oilier j aviatic . pictures will be made?” asked j

“Tha f would be impossible,” he replied. “Wc are making this picture ’ in technicolour, and it is the first colc- ed air picture ever made. Natur- ! ally we can’t use any black and white film, old or new, in it.” Wellman is using 25 pilots in “Men With Wings.” Together they have more than 100.000 hours of flying time, most of it in stunt work in motion pictures. All are members of the Association of Motion Picture Pilots. Several worked with him when he made “Wings” with Clara Bow. Richard Arlen and Charles Rogers. This time Fred Mac Murray. Ray Milland and Louise Campbell will j be at the heat of the cast. ——r ! —= = ~ i , ! J