when was this movie released ?
August 12, 1927
Wings (1927 film)
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. Some prints had synchronized sound effects and music, using the General Electric Kinegraphone (later RCA Photophone) sound-on-film process.

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Wings (1927 film) [SEP] Release and reception
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 wartime conditions." Another wrote: "Nothing in the line of war pictures ever has packed a greater proportion of real thrills into an equal footage. As a spectacle, "Wings" is a technical triumph. It piles punch upon punch until the spectator is almost nervously exhausted".