DOUGLAS DC-8 PASSENGER JET PROMOTIONAL FILM “BIRTH OF A JET“ 50164

Support Our Channel : The Douglas Aircraft Company presents “Birth of a Jet,” a circa 1958 16mm promotional movie for the Douglas DC-8 jetliner. The corporate/educational color film opens by touting jets as “the new symbol of commercial aviation” and we see a DC-8 jetliner streaking across the sky and flying past San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge (mark 01:08). Douglas has been a pioneer in aviation, the narrator remarks starting at mark 01:50, since the first flight of the DC-1 in 1933, followed by all the other aircraft in the line as their images appear on the screen. While Douglas also has made a number of contributions to the military such as with the Douglas X-3 Stiletto (mark 02:35), the A-F Skyhawk “Mighty Midge” and the F4D Skyray, the company remains committed to the commercial industry. Showing its manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California (shown at mark 03:45) the film captures the work on DC-8 jet airliners being conducted inside the plant. By m