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Uploaded by on May 28, 2008

Early American Airways promotional film with twin engine Curtiss Condor airplanes showing plane interiors and passengers, airport facilities, pilots and cockpit, map with destinations at that time, chart showing passenger growth from 1928 to 1933.Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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  • I was so drawn in I almost missed it when he said "darkies loading cotton."

    I look at a lot of these old films and think how great life must have been, and then things like that remind me that it wasn't so great for everyone.

  • Insn`t it strange to think, that all these people are not living any more?

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  • Huge airplanes carrying 18 passengers. Wow!

  • @KYLEAKAFLYBOIK AMR just flew into bankruptcy. UAL which has been bankrupt more than once is haveing problems again, It says higher fuel costs are to blame.(2011) It's a industry in decline. Watch what happens to towns that sold airport bonds. With no rent from airlines to pay the interest on them. 27 cities lost air service in 2011.

  • @Kaniela6759 AMR is now bankrupt. (2011) UAL is now having troubles with high fuel costs. The industry is in decline. It will take all the towns with it that sold airport bonds. 27 airports lost air service this past year.

  • It's amazing to think that this movie was made during the depth of the depression. My other comment (and I was alive at the time) is that if you had tried to sic the TSA on these people there would have been a fist fight, and if they had tried to touch the women, oh my!

  • That guy needs to lose those P.J.'s !

  • They need to wake up the copilot.

  • Three years after this film was made, American introduced the Douglas DC-3, the most famous aircraft of its day, and made non-stop travel between Chicago and New York possible.

  • Hard to think how air travel used to be.

  • My God were we brave !

    "Darkies", smoking, freight concerns.....hilarious !

  • My God were we brave !

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