how was the movies reception ?
An immediate success
Wings (1927 film)
"Wings" was an immediate success upon release and became the yardstick against which successive aviation films were measured for years thereafter, in terms of "authenticity of combat and scope of production". One of the reasons for its resounding popularity was the public infatuation with aviation in the wake of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. The Air Corps who had supervised production expressed satisfaction with the end product. The critical response was equally enthusiastic and the film was widely praised for its realism and technical prowess, despite a superficial plot, "an aviation picnic" as Gene Brown called it. The combat scenes of the film were so realistic that one writer studying the film in the early 1970s was wondering if Wellman had used actual imagery of planes crashing to earth during World War I. One critic observed: "The exceptional quality of "Wings" lies in its appeal as a spectacle and as a picture of at least some of the actualities of flying under warti
how did they do the tracking shot in wings UNANSWERABLE when was this movie released ? August 12, 1927 who produced this film ? Lucien Hubbard name some of the leading cast members ? Clara Bow, Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen any accolades won by this film ? Yes - Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Engineering Effects for Roy Pomeroy for the year. what is the main plot of this film ? It is a romantic action-war film where Jack Powell and David Armstrong are vying for the attention of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack and David are shipped off to France to fight against Imperial Germany.
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Wings (1927 film) [SEP] Release and reception
Wellman dedicated the film "to those young warriors of the sky whose wings are folded about them forever". A sneak preview was shown May 19, 1927, at the Texas Theater on Houston Street in San Antonio. The premiere was held at the Criterion Theater, in New York City, on August 12, 1927, and was screened for 63 weeks before being moved to second-run theaters. The original Paramount release of "Wings" was color tinted and had some sequences in an early widescreen process known as Magnascope, also used in the 1926 Paramount film "Old Ironsides". The original release also had the aerial scenes use the Handschiegl color process for flames and explosions.