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Orville Wright lies down at the controls, his brother starts up the engine, and the airplane takes off. This life-size model was built by Frédéric Back, as was as the scale model in the following scene.

Credit: Radio-Canada, black and white, 1960, 00:59

Wilbur et Orville Wright, les frères volants
(Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Flying Brothers)

Initial broadcast: 16/04/1960
Running time: 00:30:00
Producers: Guy Hoffmann and Jean Martinet
Writers: Fernand Séguin and Réginald Boisvert
Cast: Maurice Dallaire as Wilbur Wright, Jean-Louis Millette as Orville Wright, Raymond Royer as George Spratt, Jacques Zouvi as John T. Daniels, Jean Daigle as W.S. Dough and Gaëtan Labrèche as A.D. Etheridge
Frédéric Back: set and model airplane

Synopsis

The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, aviation pioneers whose research and experimentation led to the first powered flight, piloted by Orville, in 1903.