# UNITED AIRLINES DC-7 MAINLINER / JET AGE MAINTENANCE & SAFETY PROMOTIONAL FILM 17704

Produced by Cate & McGlone, United Airlines presents this 1950’s era, color movie called, Flying Colors. The film attempts to reassure the public about air travel by showing the maintenance procedures followed by United on its new DC-7 Mainliners. It was made just prior to the debut of the jet powered Boeing 707, which is discussed at the 5:30 mark. Written by Walter Wise, directed by T.W. Cate, photographed by E.D. McGlone, edited by Charles Cahill, with music supervision by Jack Meakin and production supervision by Bernard Kovnat. The film is dedicated to United men and women in aircraft maintenance for United Airlines. The movie opens with an image of an analog clock on the wall, it is 6:59 EST, 1:15. An image of United Airline planes flying over various American cities, 1:30. A plane flies over Hawaii, 1:50. The United Airlines maintenance base is shown, 3:27. Workers leave the maintenance factory, 3:40. Planes are seen at the maintenance docks, 3:50. A plane is rolled in for maintenance, preventive maintenance and quality assurance, 4:20. The men schedule maintenance reports, 4:50. Men sit in the board room to go over plans for future designs and maintenance for United planes, 5:15. Different placards are shown with different airplane designs,5:34. The executives discuss new plans for different United planes, 6:05. Planes roll by on the tarmac at an airport, 6:55. Maintenance men check the propellers, batteries and tires of the planes. 7:15. Quality assurance…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/17704flyingcolorsvwr)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader states a Creative Commons licence, but that it is the rights holder's is not shown: its record does not date the work from 2002, when the licences were first published, or the work is another's (an older work under a later date, or a video set to another's song), and nothing else the site holds shows where it is free. Unclear is not offered.