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Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.

Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the ABC series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.

Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.

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Movies Starring Robert Taylor (109)

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966. ...

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo (2014)

Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo. ...

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck. ...

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend. ...

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system. ...

Garbo, by Joan Crawford (1969)

Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo. ...

The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain. ...

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)

Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country. ...

The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968)

The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washi ...

Hondo and the Apaches (1967)

Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature. ...

The Glass Sphinx (1967)

An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries. ...

Return of the Gunfighter (1967)

A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents. ...

Savage Pampas (1966)

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang. ...

Johnny Tiger (1966)

Teacher George Dean packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a Seminole reservation in Florida. ...

The Night Walker (1964)

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire. ...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...

A House Is Not a Home (1964)

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s. ...

Cattle King (1963)

A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows. ...

Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)

In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform. ...

The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure. ...

Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)

An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave trade ...

The Hangman (1959)

A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid ...

Party Girl (1958)

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Ange ...

The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by ...

Saddle the Wind (1958)

Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake. ...

Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid. ...

The Power and the Prize (1956)

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee. ...

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman. ...

The Last Hunt (1956)

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun. ...

Quentin Durward (1955)

During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott. ...

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798. ...

Rogue Cop (1954)

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer. ...

Valley of the Kings (1954)

Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's tra ...

Knights of the Round Table (1953)

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection. ...

All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls. ...

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory. ...

I Love Melvin (1953)

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. ...

Above and Beyond (1953)

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll r ...

The Hoaxters (1952)

The Hoaxters (1952)

A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life. ...

Ivanhoe (1952)

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart. ...

Westward the Women (1951)

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whi ...

Quo Vadis (1951)

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. ...

Rome, the Eternal City (1951)

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome. ...

Devil's Doorway (1950)

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people. ...

The Fighting Lady's Family (1950)

The Fighting Lady's Family (1950)

In this documentary short film, a link is described between the U.S. Navy forces of World War II and the advance Navy of 1950. After illustrating the work of the Navy in winning the Second World War, the film demonstrates how peacetime brought new explorat ...

Screen Actors (1950)

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...

Ambush (1950)

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches. ...

Conspirator (1949)

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy. ...

The Bribe (1949)

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket. ...

The Secret Land (1948)

This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarctic. Thi ...

High Wall (1947)

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and re ...

Performers Arrive in Hampshire (1947)

Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom. ...

Undercurrent (1946)

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother. ...

Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly (1945)

This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing the pa ...

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 (1945)

In this documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, proper spin and stall techniques for pilot trainees are explored. After Cadet McDribble nearly collides with a squadron of Navy planes because he has practiced spins through clouds, Lt. Taylor shows his stu ...

Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 (1945)

In this continuation of a prior government documentary short film, a pilot trainee continues his first flight instruction. His instructor demonstrates the use of ailerons, elevators, and rudder to control the plane in banks and turns, and illustrates the n ...

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 (1945)

In this documentary short film from the U.S. Navy, a naval flight instructor demonstrates to a pair of cadet pilot trainees the proper means of maintaining stable flight without danger of stalling. He explains the principles of lift versus weight, and how ...

Primary Flight Training: Landings (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Landings (1945)

In this government documentary short film, a Navy lieutenant explains the proper procedures for standard "stall" landings. Illustrating the nose-up attitude of a proper landing by means of footage of birds landing in a similar attitude, the instructor poin ...

Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 (1945)

This documentary short film is one of a series of U.S. Navy training films instructing new pilots on flight technique. In this, an instructor lectures (with live and animated film footage) pilot trainees on the initial techniques of maintaining proper airc ...

Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 (1945)

In this government documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, pilot trainees are instructed in the basics of take-off preparation, including the plane captain's inspection and the checklists of notations from prior flights of the same aircraft. Instructor L ...

Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs (1945)

In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircraft at an airfield. He also illustrates proper take-off procedure and many of the common mistakes made dur ...

The Fighting Lady (1944)

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of the many new aircraft carriers built since Pearl Harbor, known as THE ...

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (1944)

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (1944)

Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt. Taylor. Lt. Taylor talks to the men about the necessity of becoming practiced in the way of the aircraft in such a way as to enable them to rely on their ...

Song of Russia (1944)

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city to ...

Bataan (1943)

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secu ...

The Youngest Profession (1943)

Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on disinformation from a meddling governess, Joan also devotes some time to wo ...

Stand by for Action (1942)

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas. ...

Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo. ...

Johnny Eager (1941)

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love. ...

When Ladies Meet (1941)

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. ...

Billy the Kid (1941)

Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating. When Keating is killed by a rival, Billy seeks revenge, even if it means opposing his old friend, Mar ...

Flight Command (1940)

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable ...

Escape (1940)

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape. ...

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. ...

Trifles of Importance (1940)

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7 affects a student accused of theft charges. The second segment shows that a person's doodles can reveal p ...

Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Craw ...

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. ...

Remember? (1939)

Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug ...

Lady of the Tropics (1939)

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness. ...

From the Ends of the Earth (1939)

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the ...

Lucky Night (1939)

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pre ...

Stand Up and Fight (1939)

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom. ...

The Crowd Roars (1938)

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living. ...

Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to sug ...

Three Comrades (1938)

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. ...

A Yank at Oxford (1938)

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister. ...

The Romance of Celluloid (1937)

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production ...

Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a fa ...

This Is My Affair (1937)

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...

Lest We Forget (1937)

MGM hosts a salute to Will Rogers (1875-1935) shortly after his death. After a few words from Gary Cooper and Harry Carey, a look at Rogers' fatal trip with Wiley Post, clips from Rogers' movies, a proclamation from Oklahoma's governor, and a cowboy ballad ...

Personal Property (1937)

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother. ...

Camille (1936)

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins ...

The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're ...

His Brother's Wife (1936)

Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. ...

Private Number (1936)

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good. ...

Small Town Girl (1936)

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay ...

Magnificent Obsession (1935)

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death. ...

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singi ...

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secre ...

Murder in the Fleet (1935)

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In orde ...

West Point of the Air (1935)

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer. ...

Times Square Lady (1935)

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control. ...

Society Doctor (1935)

Two surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room. ...

Buried Loot (1935)

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise. ...

A Wicked Woman (1934)

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him. ...

There's Always Tomorrow (1934)

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee. ...

The Spectacle Maker (1934)

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor. ...

Handy Andy (1934)

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome ...

Movies Made By Robert Taylor (9)

Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly (1945)

This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing the pa ...

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 (1945)

In this documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, proper spin and stall techniques for pilot trainees are explored. After Cadet McDribble nearly collides with a squadron of Navy planes because he has practiced spins through clouds, Lt. Taylor shows his stu ...

Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 (1945)

In this continuation of a prior government documentary short film, a pilot trainee continues his first flight instruction. His instructor demonstrates the use of ailerons, elevators, and rudder to control the plane in banks and turns, and illustrates the n ...

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 (1945)

In this documentary short film from the U.S. Navy, a naval flight instructor demonstrates to a pair of cadet pilot trainees the proper means of maintaining stable flight without danger of stalling. He explains the principles of lift versus weight, and how ...

Primary Flight Training: Landings (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Landings (1945)

In this government documentary short film, a Navy lieutenant explains the proper procedures for standard "stall" landings. Illustrating the nose-up attitude of a proper landing by means of footage of birds landing in a similar attitude, the instructor poin ...

Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 (1945)

This documentary short film is one of a series of U.S. Navy training films instructing new pilots on flight technique. In this, an instructor lectures (with live and animated film footage) pilot trainees on the initial techniques of maintaining proper airc ...

Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 (1945)

Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 (1945)

In this government documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, pilot trainees are instructed in the basics of take-off preparation, including the plane captain's inspection and the checklists of notations from prior flights of the same aircraft. Instructor L ...

Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs (1945)

Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs (1945)

In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircraft at an airfield. He also illustrates proper take-off procedure and many of the common mistakes made dur ...

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (1944)

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense (1944)

Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt. Taylor. Lt. Taylor talks to the men about the necessity of becoming practiced in the way of the aircraft in such a way as to enable them to rely on their ...

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