Moving Image:Fashion Horizons

Fashion Horizons is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.

Fashion Horizons
Produced by	Donahue (Harry D.)
Production company	Donahue (Harry D.)
Distributed by	Donahue (Harry D.)
Release date	1940
Running time	19:11
Language	English

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Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.

 42:93- 1:04:38

Still shot of a shiny silver airplane floating in the sky above the clouds the problem are the titles over it, but it ends with no titles.

 1:45:29- 2:00:02

Good shot of the underbelly of a plane as it comes towards us. Cut to a view of the shiny, silver plane at eye-level.

worth noting: There are some interesting shots of cocktail hour at an Arizona resort. They sit outside surrounded by the Arizona desert.

01:28:14:13 VS TWA shiny silver airplane with Stratoliner written in cursive beneath cockpit windows; TWA plane takes off; VS TWA Stratoliner flying in blue skies.

01:29:27:02 Woman pins flowers onto her jacket and looks in mirror; audio track Why of course, like everywoman she s taking a last look in the mirrors of the Stratoliner s charm room; woman exits TWA Stratoliner plane down staircase.

01:29:48:21 Passengers dressed in 1940s style exit TWA Stratoliner airplane.

01:30:04:19 CU tail of plane; two TWA workers open luggage compartment and unload metal suitcases; Audio track Take notice of the smart airplane luggage that the air passenger are using. It s Halliburton luggage, especially travel tested by TWA for air passengers.

01:30:33:20 Pan down from TWA Stratoliner propellers to Pueblo Indian s do buffalo dance dance on runway; Albuquerque sign on airport building behind them; VS Pueblo Native American dancing to drums.

01:31:20:08 VS 1940s formally dressed actors Margaret Hayes and Virginia Dayle escorted by man in suit exploring crumbling adobe pueblo building in New Mexico. great audio sound bite Margaret s adobe top coat tossed carelessly over her shoulder, blends with the crumbling adobe ruins.

01:31:41:10 Three Hollywood actors dressed up walk through adobe ruins up two three traditionally dressed Native American Women; Three Native American women dressed in colorful traditional clothes, audio track One little, two little, three little Indian girls.

01:31:55:14 Red-headed women in 1940s Western fashion towers over Indian woman in traditional clothes as she pages through a children s book written by the Indian woman

01:33:32:26 TWA Stratoliner plane filmed from below.

01:33:50:20 VS aerials of Arizona landscape outside of Phoenix; adobe ruins; Valley of the Sun, Camelback Mountain.

01:34:21:10 VS Camelback Inn.

01:36:18:09 CU cowboy frying eggs and bacon in pan over open fire.

01:36:52:02 VS young attractive actors hanging around by pool at Camelback Inn with desert landscape in background; people playing shuffleboard.

01:38;57:16 Red-haired woman in blue dress in front of a large cactus is handed a cigarette by man in white jacket, man lights woman s cigarette.

01:42:19:10 Stewardess and pilots walk toward camera just outside of Phoenix Airport adobe style building.

01:42:57:02 Snow-capped San Francisco Peak filmed from plane window.

01:43:07:24 VS aerials of Meteor Crater; the Grand Canyon; Colorado River and Boulder Dam;

01:44:47:13 VS from boat of Lake Mead in Boulder City.

01:45:15:19 VS TWA plane on runway and in air.