To Fly! (1976) IMAX 70mm film, LaserDisc rip
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Visually stunning and influential IMAX 70mm film made to commemorate the renovation, reopening, and renaming of the National Air and Space Museum by MacGillivray Freeman Films. A brief history of aviation, from hot air balloons to barnstorming to military planes to space flight. Was only supposed to have a year long engagement, but is still playing at the National Air and Space Museum! This is a rip of the LaserDisc release of the film, which is the highest quality version publicly available. I blew it up to 1080p, and did some minor color and brightness correction. I'd put this on an exclusive tracker years ago but decided it'd be nice to have it be widely available.
This is not the first IMAX film, but it was the film that really put the format on the map, and has been seen by millions. In fact, its one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time despite only playing in a handful of venues.
"Can you really call yourself a Washingtonian if you haven't seen To Fly?"
-John Kelly, The Washington Post (2016) 
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So glad to have found this movie here on RUclips! As many others have noted in their comments, I remember watching this at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC back in the early 1980s. It really was breathtaking on the gigantic IMAX screen. It does lose a little bit of that marvel when watched on a computer screen or on a mobile phone, but it’s still a great movie with a great message. I was always hoping that they would release this movie for purchase on DVD, but that has never happened yet. Thanks for the upload!
In 1985
I watched this movie with my family in 63 building in Korea. My father passed away January 10 this year. The memory at that time will never disappear in my soul forever. Thank you very much Greg Macgillivray.
I remember watching this many times at the National Air and Space Museum when I was in junior high school. Brings back memories. Thank you for posting this!
Can’t believe someone uploaded this film, I had been looking it for years! Thank you!!!!!!
Had a summer pass every year to Great America when I was a kid, and I must have seen this movie at least 20 times. We used to go in the Imax theater to cool off. Thanks for the nostalgia. Great post 💯👍
I went on a field trip to the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC in elementary school. I thought this film was the coolest thing at the time. I don’t know why, but it just popped up in my head today. I’m happy to see somebody uploaded it to RUclips. 😊
I remember seeing this in IMAX as a kid, it was really immersive on such a big screen. Must have really been a marvel in the 70s
It WAS a marvel! I saw it at the National Air and Space Museum as a young lad in 1976 and it amazed everyone. Most people had never even heard of IMAX, and aerial filming was rare in those days. To Fly! was the only film they had for about the first three years, and they showed it all day long, quickly emptying and refilling the theater every forty minutes or so. And most of the shows were sold out!
This relic played at Cedar Point when I was a kid. I loved it! Thanks for the memories.
12:45 For those who are wondering, yes, that is a flying wing at 12:45. That's a Northrop YB-49 prototype heavy bomber, which first flew in 1947. 40 years before the B-2. Ludicrously ahead of its time.
❤OMG, so glad to find this. I saw it in the late 70s at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and was so amazed!
Watching Bob Wills flying his Wills Wing Swallow tail hang glider along the cliffs in Hawaii is pure magic!
About 45 years ago when I was a 13-year-old teenager living in the nations capital I’m going to public schools I would sometimes skip school and take the bus downtown to the mall to the national air and space museum and pay $1.35 to watch this incredible movie on the worlds first IMAX screen back in the day It’s 1978 I believe and I tell you what I watched it. Again today and it’s just as good.
I think I saw it at the Air and Space IMAX in its first year. I can still remember that transition at 1:55 when it went from only a third-frame to full frame, on that giant IMAX screen.
Marriott's Great America 1977 ! (and a few more intermittent years)
Saw this in 1976 at special showing for the VP of USA
It loses a little something when watched on a computer screen - but still a cool film. Thanks for uploading it.
I remember seeing this at great America on a big giant IMAX screen. I’m now watching it on my iPhone. Ha ha.
Fascinating. It would be enjoyable to experience IMAX.
The gas balloon in the opening scene was assisted by the Balloon Flyers of Akron, OH. The balloon was built by Goodyear.