A RENDEZVOUS WITH EUROPE 1960s JET AGE LUFTHANSA AIRLINES TRAVEL AGENT PROMO FILM XD45794
Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website This 1960s color Travel Feature produced by Herbert Lannard, scripted by Wilfred S. Rowe, and directed by Warner Rose for Lufthansa German Airlines employs a dramatised keeping up with the Joneses narrative, offering travel agents a promotional tool for communicating the convenience and affordability of modern European air travel (TRT 24:00). Green smoke. A cave man paints a figure on a rock (0:09). Illustrations of early methods of travel, from rowboats and chariots to steam locomotives, trolleys, balloons, and planes (0:38). Opening titles with cartoon illustrations: Lufthansa German Airlines presents and A Rendezvous With Europe. Actors Howard Da Silva, Kathleen Claypool, Alisa Beck, John Jakobson, and David Thomas are credited (2:10). A spinning globe and a model of a jet airliner held by a host (3:18). Howard Da Silva is introduced as Sam. His fami
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