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How cinema encouraged air travel
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Air travel peaked in 2024, even surpassing the record figures of the pre-Covid years. Weʹve almost forgotten about it today, but at some point in industrial history, we had to make people want to climb into a carlingue that flies thousands of meters above the ground. We also had to reassure them. Cinema has played an important role in theʹ acceptance of air travel as a safe, accessible and desirable experience. For its part, lʹaviation left an important place for the seventh art on its planes - the famous films that lʹon enchaine during a long-haul flight. How did these two twentieth-century industries work together?