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Routine Flight

Gordon Burwash & Grant McLean

1955 30 min

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This documentary short takes you on a tour of Trans-Canada Airlines’ maintenance shops in Winnipeg before taking off for a trial flight on the British-built Vickers Viscount airplane, the first propeller-turbine airliner.

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  On the Spot

  1950 20 films

  The first NFB series made specifically for television, On the Spot consisted of 15-minute documentary reports (which later ran 30 minutes) on different aspects of life in Canada.

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This documentary short takes you on a tour of Trans-Canada Airlines’ maintenance shops in Winnipeg before taking off for a trial flight on the British-built Vickers Viscount airplane, the first propeller-turbine airliner.

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Transportation

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Credits

• director
  Gordon Burwash
  
  Grant McLean
  
• producer
  Gordon Burwash
  
  Grant McLean
  
• executive producer
  Robert Anderson
  
• photography
  Grant McLean
  
• sound
  John Locke
  
• editing
  David Mayerovitch
  
  Marion Meadows
  
• narrator
  Liston McIlhaga
  

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