Hi Tapio,
That's a great clip. There seems to be some comedy between the stern guy and the other timer - what are they saying to each other?
The scene might be staged, but there is no doubt that is well built and trimmed model.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
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> I posted this to HipPocket, but I guess I should mail it also here:
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> Earlier this year the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) aired a film
> from 1934, called "Our boys in the air". The film is most of all to
> promote the importance of air force and aerial weapon (I guess there
> were the first undertones of the war coming 5 years later), but the
> first scene tells how important model aviation is to introduce aviation
> to the youth, and shows an indoor contest, where the "champion" from the
> previous year makes a new record with his new model (and is greeted by
> hoorays from the audience). New record: 5 minutes and 25 seconds.
>
> I uploaded the clip into Youtube but put it unlisted, as the copyright
> issues of such movie clips are sort of unclear. Follow this link but
> please do not distribute further:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6t8vdZFcRw&feature=youtu.be
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> -Tapio-
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Received on Thu Dec 13 2012 - 09:42:07 CET