AIRPORT IN THE JET AGE LAX WORLD AIRPORT 1960s EDUCATIONAL FILM 48914

“Airport in the Jet Age” is a 1960s color film that explores a large metropolitan jet airport, primarily featuring United DC-8 Jet Mainliners. While not an exceptional film by any means, it is notable for containing views of LAX World Airport when it was brand new, relatively small (compared to today’s version) and still used isolated terminals and with the “theme building“ standing alone at its core. The film opens with a comparison of a book with an airport and how both can take people to places they’ve never been. So begins the journey of a boy in a business suit boarding a helicopter (mark 01:06) for his “taxi ride” to the airport, flying over the city and its traffic jams before arriving the terminal. We take a look inside (mark 02:13) as the boy checks in with the ticket agent and hands over his luggage. Safely aboard his United Airlines flight (mark 04:28) the film retraces each step in the process, showing the viewer what happens to check baggage (starting at mark 04:52), how the