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Eaglets (short film)

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Eaglets
Directed byGeorge D. Malcolm
Screenplay byGeorge D. Malcolm
CinematographyGeorge D. Malcolm
Edited byGeorge D. Malcolm
Production
company
Release date
  • December 1935 (1935-12)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Eaglets is a 1935 Australian documentary short film that was theatrically released. It was made by Commonwealth Film Laboratories to promote the Model Flying Club of Australia. George D. Malcolm directed, shot, wrote and edited it.[1][2] Keith Macpherson Smith was a patron of the club.[3] The film runs for eleven minutes.[4]

According to the Sydney Morning Herald "Scenes of the activities of the club are woven round the story of the conversion of two schoolboys from flying kites to flying model aeroplanes."[5]

Smith's Weekly called it "an excellent example of how this sort of thing should be done."[6]

The Launceston Examiner called it "a fine piece of model aero propaganda."[7]

References

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  1. ^ "MAYFAIR THEATRE". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 620. New South Wales, Australia. 22 February 1936. p. 14. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ ""EAGLETS" AT MAYFAIR". The Labor Daily. No. 3810. New South Wales, Australia. 21 February 1936. p. 6. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "MODEL PLANE FILM". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. 6, no. 9. New South Wales, Australia. 26 February 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ ""COME OUT OF THE PANTRY."". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 621. New South Wales, Australia. 24 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ ""EAGLETS."". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 555. New South Wales, Australia. 7 December 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ ""EAGLETS"". Smith's Weekly. Vol. XVII, no. 43. New South Wales, Australia. 21 December 1935. p. 22. Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "DIHEDRAL ON MODEL AERONAUTICS: BUILDERS BUSY: WEIGHT RULE CONTESTS". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. XCVI, no. 223. Tasmania, Australia. 27 November 1937. p. 4 (LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY : SPECIAL WEEK-END SECTION). Retrieved 21 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.