Here's a training film produced for the US Armed Forces in which, as you might guess from the title, there's some instruction on taxiing and taking off in your airplane. I've never piloted a plane. In fact, it's thirty years since I drove a car, so the steady pace of the narrator left me no wiser after I had seen the movie than before. All I know is that if the wind is coming from your left, you turn the stick to your left.
Not that I'm ever going to need to. I hope. What impelled me to look at this particular film today is that the narrator is Robert Taylor, in the person of a flight instructor. Also, it is believed he directed it, at least the portions in which Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer plays an inept pilot.
There are people who seem to think that actors make up their own lines in a movie. Occasionally they contribute, but usually there's a script and a director. Taylor was a popular actor, but that's all he was really known for. Yet you can't engage in an industry for a decade or more without picking up some tricks in how to do other jobs.
Not that I'm ever going to need to. I hope. What impelled me to look at this particular film today is that the narrator is Robert Taylor, in the person of a flight instructor. Also, it is believed he directed it, at least the portions in which Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer plays an inept pilot.
There are people who seem to think that actors make up their own lines in a movie. Occasionally they contribute, but usually there's a script and a director. Taylor was a popular actor, but that's all he was really known for. Yet you can't engage in an industry for a decade or more without picking up some tricks in how to do other jobs.
