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Men of the Earth and Sky 1969, 1969.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Politics & Society
- Culture & Society
- Standardized Title:
- Люди земли и неба. English.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:51:07) : Sound, Black and White.
- Other Title:
- Lyudi zemli i neba
- Place of Publication:
- 1969,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
- Summary:
- Documentary about famous Soviet test pilot Yuri Garnaev who was killed whilst piloting a helicopter fighting forest fires in France in 1967. Using footage from test flights, stills and a script curated from material from Garnaev's journals, the film tells the story of Garnaev's working life from childhood to death. Includes old footage of a 1930s Russian Aeroclub, as well as the testing of fighter jet and helicopter ejectors seats, a vertical take-off aircraft, experiments in weightlessness for space exploration, air displays and Italo Donati's fatal crash at the Paris International Airshow in 1965. The film concludes with shots of the large MI6 helicopter whose crew included Garnaev, and which crashed whilst being used to put out forest fires in Southern France in 1967.
- Credits:
- Contributors: Dobrodeev, B.
- Production Company: Leningrad Documentary Film Studios.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: N-508019.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 30 April, 2019).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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