A man flies his small, dirigible-like craft above Paris, occasionally waving his hat at the audience in this early movie by Ferdinand Zecca.
It's an improbable-looking airplane from the modern viewpoint, but people were already flying dirigibles two years before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk.
Zecca came to films from the stage. Charles Pathe originally hired him to set up Pathe's pavilion at the 1900 Paris exposition, then at Vincennes as a direcorial assistant. He soon was in charge of the film-making division, supervising other directors. He went to America to handle Pathe's affairs there, made his last film in 1913, and worked for the company until he retired in 1939. He died in 1947 at the age of 83.
It's an improbable-looking airplane from the modern viewpoint, but people were already flying dirigibles two years before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk.
Zecca came to films from the stage. Charles Pathe originally hired him to set up Pathe's pavilion at the 1900 Paris exposition, then at Vincennes as a direcorial assistant. He soon was in charge of the film-making division, supervising other directors. He went to America to handle Pathe's affairs there, made his last film in 1913, and worked for the company until he retired in 1939. He died in 1947 at the age of 83.