Night flight ~ photo shoot !!

It was around 8.15 pm – visibility was low – sky was dark – at a far distance, appeared an aeroplane .. .. could see some lights with eye but was not able to spot it on camera.

 

With some difficulty took a photo, then increased ISO manifold and took another – in a few minutes another one came along ! – not great photos but considering the darkness !! 

 

In South America, the daunting mountains and dangerous weather have hampered the operations of Trans-Andean European Air Mail, a 1930s-era airline. Charged with delivering a serum to stem an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Rio de Janeiro, Auguste Pellerin conquers his fears, but is reprimanded by the airline's stern director, A. Rivière for coming in late.  

Determined to make the night flight program work, Rivière sends pilot Jules Fabian and his wireless operator on another dangerous flight. The pair are caught in a torrential rain storm and when Madame Fabian comes to the headquarters, she realizes that her husband is overdue. The two airmen, flying blind over the ocean, run out of fuel and choose to jump, but drown. Rivière refuses to quit and orders a Brazilian pilot to take the mail to Rio, but the pilot's wife   pleads   him not to go. Despite the dangers, the night mail is delivered on time.  

The plot of - Night Flight (also known as Dark to Dawn),  a 1933 American pre-Code aviation drama film produced by David O. Selznick, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown and starring John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy.  The movei was  based on the 1931 novel of the same name, which won the Prix Femina the same year, by French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Based on Saint-Exupéry's personal experiences while flying on South American mail routes, Night Flight recreated a 24-hour period of the operations of a fictional airline based on Aéropostale, Trans-Andean European Air Mail.  In 1942, Night Flight was withdrawn from circulation as a result of a legal dispute between MGM and Saint Exupéry. The film was unavailable for 69 years and could not be seen until 2011, when the legal obstacles were finally settled.

Interesting !

 
Regards – S Sampathkumar
28.6.2025