Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc.
Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc.
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Product Details
Certificate Type | Common Stock |
Company | Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc. |
Date Issued | August 21, 1974 |
Canceled | Yes |
Printer | Security-Columbian Bank Note Company |
Signatures | Machine printed |
Notable | NA |
Approximate Measurements |
12" (w) by 8" |
Product Images | Show the exact piece you will receive |
Guaranteed Authentic | Yes |
Historical Context
In 1961, TWA was the first carrier to regularly offer inflight movies, screening the (somewhat) steamy By Love Possessed. The Internet Movie Database sums up the Lana Turner flick with: “Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.” David Flexer, president of New York City-based Inflight Motion Pictures, spent four years developing the system used on TWA aircraft. Company engineers prototyped a number of projectors, Flexer told the New Yorker in June 1962, but all were rejected for various reasons, including leaving too little headroom in the aisle and not measuring up to FAA impact standards (nine-Gs). The projector that was finally used weighed 75 pounds, and fit into a 34-inch-long extension of the life-raft compartment, the article notes. A single reel held the entire film. “Putting a complete picture on one reel meant that we had to use a reel twenty-four or twenty-five inches in diameter, but we had only twelve inches of free height at our disposal,” Mr. Flexer said. “What to do? Obviously, we had to put the reel in a horizontal position, but a projector will only take film that’s in a vertical position, so we designed guide rollers to turn the film from horizontal to vertical as it goes into the projector and from vertical to horizontal as it comes out. We solved half a dozen other problems equally crucial; an awful lot of ingenuity has gone into this thing, which started from my simply thinking one day, in flight, that air travel is both the most advanced form of transportation and the most boring.” By the end of the 1960s, White said in-flight movies were available not only on board American Airlines, TWA, Pan Am, United and other US carriers, but also on airlines across the globe, including Pakistan International, Air France, China Air and Swissair. |
Aviation | TWA |
Technology | Motion Pictures |
Manhattan | New York |
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