A few weeks back I previewed my cohosting of the 1943 Disney film Victory Through Air Power for History at the Movies Australia and Aviation Cultures Mk.V. Both the conference and the livetweeting went splendidly (I think!), but I didn't get around to lazyblogging the latter... until now.

The evening began with the half-hour short documentary Flight Plan, made in 1950 by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation, which you can watch here.

[tweet id="1375357664641773573" conversation=false]Conference jokes and airline jokes -- together at last. Yes, this is going to be a good night in...

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[tweet id="1375358749989199879" conversation=false]('I love a sunburnt country...')

[tweet id="1375358984601792517" conversation=false]Tooraweenah, NSW.

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[tweet id="1375359870929539078" conversation=false]That should be 'unambiguous', not 'unambiguously'.

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[tweet id="1375360442541895680" conversation=false]Note to the future: at the time of tweeting, most airline flights were grounded due to an ongoing global pandemic. Look it up.

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[tweet id="1375363059049361410" conversation=false]One day I will use this in a publication. One day...

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[tweet id="1375363813495562240" conversation=false]West Wyalong, NSW.

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[tweet id="1375364361661816834" conversation=false]Here Flight Plan ends and Victory Through Air Power begins. You can watch Victory Through Air Power at the Internet Archive (colour) or on YouTube (black and white); you can even download it from NARA.

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[tweet id="1375365326628528136" conversation=false]That should be #TeamSykes, of course.

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[tweet id="1375366153179066369" conversation=false]E.g. here.

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[tweet id="1375366463725346817" conversation=false] Tell me I'm wrong!

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[tweet id="1375368233780273152" conversation=false]I tried to take some screenshots, but they really don't do these sequences justice.

[tweet id="1375368313992142849" conversation=false]I'm sure the number was just made up.

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[tweet id="1375370673548226569" conversation=false]To give a guernsey: a no-doubt mystifying phrase for non-Australians.

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[tweet id="1375372830125170692" conversation=false]Yes, I think these were both exactly the point here.

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[tweet id="1375374258814119936" conversation=false]Ever Given, the ship that memed.

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[tweet id="1375376568936067074" conversation=false]That's our man de Seversky himself, by the way.

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