
1931 · Alexander Esway · 71 min
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.
Frederick CulleyRoger Bacon
Laurence OlivierVincent Lunardi
Franklin DyallJerome de Ascoli
Henry VictorOtto Lilienthal
Hay PetrieTiberius Cavallo
John TurnbullVon ZeppelinCharles LefeauxLouis BleriotBryan PowleyGeorge Cayley
Alan WheatleyGiovanni Alfonso Borelli
John AbbottJean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Charles FrendNarrator (voice)
Edward Ashley(uncredited)Italo BalboItalo Balbo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Memo BenassiFrancesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)Denville BondOliver of Malmesbury (uncredited)