EVERYTHING in this film has changed. The plane, the legroom, the smoking, the food, the "atmosphere", the curtains, the drinks, the security, the elegance, the technology, the fly time, the skyline of new york...and the price...
Many promo films were made in the 50's/60's, to encourage post-war interest in air travel.....this one stands out as one of the best; you don't need to understand German to appreciate it. Production values are excellent with great air-to-air shots of the best prop airliner ever made....oh to be a passenger back then!
I remember flying in a TWA Constellation as a kid in the 50s. It was a comfortable plane and I remember the seats were so comfortable. We flew over the Grand Canyon and the pilot circled a few time so we could get a good view. Shortly after, they stopped doing this because of a collision between two airliners. I remember friendly service. Now, they pack you in like sardines and our major airplane manufacturer cuts corners to save money and allowed 346 people to die in interest of profit. Everything I have read about Lufthansa is this airline is high quality, efficient and very safe. You got what you paid for there.
I am german and avoid the LH when I can, got a flying blue account. It has become cumbersome and Germany is gonna become a shithole cuntry as well. Emigration is on the horizon and sure I will emigrate with the Lufthansa, to remind me properly of never coming back.
Als Kind flog ich 1957 vor Caracas nach München in einer Superconny mit drei laufenden Mannschaften Motoren und zwangsweiser Zwischnlandung in Las Palmas zur Reparatur über 19 Stunden. Es war unvergesslich, ich habe das Brummen immer noch im Ohr. Die Fenster waren groß, die Sitze bequem ,der Service persönlich. Und nicht nur das Flugzeug war elegant...
@@standardsun Ja, das stimmt. Da gab es leider mehrere Risse und später Brüche an den Ecken, die dazu führten, dass die Druckkabine nachgab. In den schlimmeren Fällen waren dann einzelne oder mehrere Insassen "weg vom Fenster", oder das ganze Flugzeug wurde zerstört.
Drang da gerade angenehmer Flug an mein Ohr ? Gut 15 Stunden nach New York mit Zwischenlandung in Gander. TOLL ! Reiseflughöhe 4.100 Meter, also genau dort wo die meisten Turbulenzen stattfinden. Auch die Kolbenmotoren laufen oder besser liefen so herrlich "LEISE". Im übrigen ist dieses Flugzeug mit seinen vier Kolbenmotoren häufig mit nur noch 3 laufenden Motoren in New York Idlewild gelandet. Entweder hatte einer davon mal wieder Feuer gefangen oder stand einfach so still. Darüber hat sich damals fast kein Passagier mehr aufgeregt. War fast normal. Allerdings war die Lockheed L-1649A Starliner aber auch für ihre Zeit das modernste und schnellste Passagierflugzeug welches so am Himmel rumdröhnte und SCHÖN und sehr ELEGANT war es auch. Aber auch für heutige Verhältnisse winzig. Am Airport in Düsseldorf steht oder stand eine dieser Maschinen. Sogar auf der Aussichtsterrasse. Ich wiederhole : Erstaunlich klein. As time goes by.
while I was a gate agent for AA (1984-2013)... we frequently had to work the LH Flight from DFW to FRA.... this was really nice to see...... very very very professional airline!! Bravo!!!
Adding my voice to the choir of 'ah, the good old days' when flying was an event! You dressed, you had manners, you knew how to act in public. I'm glad they did away with smoking on planes as it never made any sense to have two sections. I actually was a smoker when they had this go into effect. Now you can barely get your suitcase on a plane and have it arrive at the same destination. People are rude, seats are thin and uncomfortable and the crew is all stressed out.
Yes, most airlines are for the worse for main cabin (legroom, food, the people in general) but we do have the flat bed option in the high class seats. Thankfully there was that option when I had a medical situation and I need to be flat as much as possible going home.
I would rather fly the 7hrs today in a 787 from NY to Paris, than a noisy Constellation that took over 17hrs with fuel stops. The plane round trip ticket equivalent was about $8000 back then. Today, we just booked round trip tickets from Detroit to Paris non-stop for $700 (Delta)
I love that quiet time so much. How everything was done well, carefully with attention and care for people. Very friendly flight attendants, comfortable aircraft cabin, plenty of space between the seats. For each passenger, a blanket and pillow with a clean pillowcase. The food is of excellent quality and fresh.
The planes of that time were not done well. In fact they often broke down, and had to land somewhere unexpected. They were notorious of arriving with only 2 or 3 working engines.
@@Gentleman...Driver We always flew these planes, there were no others and they worked properly. Even if a catastrophe occurred, which was rare, then the chance of survival was very high, they planned to the ground and the flight did not go high.
this little promo video is very well made, especially for its time! and it was a time German cinema wasn't as active and productive as those of Italy, England, France, Eastern Europe and even the less known movie industry of Sweden, let alone the USA and India, all internationally known as producers of many high quality movies of all kinds yearly ... the restoration of this footage has also been done so professionally and in very high quality!
What an amazing time capsule this is, from a time when people took the time to relax and enjoy life. This is truly an adventure for both young and old. This was a time when airlines cared about passenger comfort. These sky ships were stunning an experience never to be forgotten. Along with spacious seating and a mouth watering menu, it's as if you are inside a dream that you never want to end. I have flown on a TWA Constellation in the early 60's. I was just a kid back then but it feels like yesterday.
Okay, das mag ja ein Promo-Film der Lufthansa aus den dem Jahre 1958 gewesen sie, aber FREUNDLICH, HILSBEREIT und EFFIZIENT ist die Lufthansa immer noch. Auch im Jahre 2021. Nur lustig wie sich die Flughäfen verändert haben und die Passagier übrigens auch. Das ist ein KLASSE-FILM mit schöner musikalischer Untermalung der 50 Jahre. Leider konnten sich nur die wenigsten solche Flüge leisten. Die waren horrend teuer. Denn Luxus in den Wolken hat halt seinen Preis. Kinder wie die Zeit vergeht..
FREUNDLICH, HILSBEREIT und EFFIZIENT ist die Lufthansa leider gar nicht mehr. Jedenfalls nicht auf Europastrecken. Die Servicequalität ist unterhalb von Billigfliegern. Die Marke Lufthansa macht sich leider schon seit Jahren selber kaputt.
@@rheinerftvideo2647 Da nun jeder mit seinem geldbeutel abstimmt, haben die fluggesellschaften ihr serviceniveau auf ein minimum reduziert. Die passagiere wählen einen flug, der 10 euro billiger ist. Man bekommt, wofür man zahlt.
I flew as a 10 year old from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada to London via Gander (a refuelling stop) in 1958. It was on a Trans Canada Airlines SUPER CONNIE! I still love the Connie's and the last Convair I flew on from South Bend IN to Detroit (Piedmont Airlines) in 1984...ahhh the purr of those engines....music indeed
Sehr schönes Video von der Lufthansa von damals 👍👌👏 Als kleiner Junge bin ich jederzeit am Wochenende zum Flughafen München Riem rausgefahren mit dem Bus und war bis zu 2 Stunden draußen gewesen . Ich war jedesmal begeistert gewesen von den Flugzeugen wie sie gelandet sind und wieder gestartet sind . Mein erster Flug war als ich 18 j. nach London . Hat mir sehr gefallen 👍👌 Darauf wurden es sehr viele Flüge in verschiedenen Ländern der Welt 🌍🌎
In the USA, through the 1960s, the flight attendants actually GAVE cigarettes to passengers! Or mini-packs of them were placed on food trays that were provided to every passengers, including children. I personally received cigarettes this way as a kid in the 1960s, which is insane.
Planes in 2021: Having Lunch on your Neighbours lap. No smoking. Pay for Drinks. Planes 1958: "May I have another ashtray after my Lobster / Champaign Dinner?"
In main cabin you cannot even use your laptop/tablet if the person in front of you reclines. When I fly, I book really early and pay extra for the exit seats.
The ultimate development of the famous Constellation, and one of the last and greatest of the piston-powered airliners (along with the Douglas DC-7). Lufthansa marketed its Starliners as "Super Stars."
Think about what the old lady said around 26:35 ... As the Captain tells the passengers, they are going 510 km/h, she remebers having driven to the shore for vacation in 1895. It was a distance of 510km, and she remembers this trip taking 3 full days... 1895, a time where the first cars came up on the market, but only the richest of the rich could afford one... Now, the same Lady sits in a 1950s high tech plane, and travels across the atlantic ocian in "just" 13h... Just think of the huge step, technic made in just 60 Years...
gosh talk about a time that was simple, without all this high tech stuff.....a time when people were normal and had manners, values and respect.....how i wish it could be like that again. it really was just a different time....
There was high-tech stuff back then - to a certain degree - in the form of airborne radar. Lockheed equipped its Starliners and Model G Super Constellations with either Bendix or RCA weather radar, depending on the operator's choice.
You are absolutely right! I was a flight attendant with Lufthansa from 1982 - 2015 and had the honor to meet their former flight attendant No. 1, Mrs. Kathke. She joined Lufthansa in 1955 and later changed to flight attendant training dept. I met her during my initial training and she was truly a Grande Dame of aviation and was highly respected by the entire company. She represented all the glamour aviation was like in that movie, as you said, normal people with good manners, values and respect. Unfortunately she passed away many years ago, and with her, all the simple things and different times were gone, too. But as a passenger today, good manners, values and respect should never go out of fashion. Even with all this high tech stuff.
In the late 70's and early 80's I was lucky enough to get this treat four times on board a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in service for the LTU on our regular vacation flights to Ibiza. I cherish those memories to this day.
Believe it or not, but on a recent TAP Air Portugal flight from DUS to LIS (TP541 on 10/10/21) a girl of about 15 was allowed to be in the cockpit for the final forty minutes of the flight, landing included. As a 200k/year Star Gold FF I was quite flabbergasted to see that and do not recall seeing anything like it anywhere in the last 15 years.
When I was a child in the 1960’s my family started to fly to Spain for our holidays. Every flight was exciting. All passengers were smartly dressed, no jeans, trainers or scruffy clothes. It was just like on this video. On the down side, it was noisy, everyone smoked and the cabins weren’t well pressurised. Many people vomited so ‘sick bags’ were in every seat pocket. I remember one flight where were all passengers started to get pains in the ears. Turned out the rear door wasn’t properly closed. Answer - the plane descended and carried on the journey at a lower altitude. Madness!
So wie einige andere Dinge mehr; "Einen rechten Jungen muss es ins Cockpit ziehen!", kleine Mädchen, die zu ihrer Bespaßung wie selbstverständlich Puppen von den Stewardessen überreicht bekommen... - all diese kleinen Dinge würden einer Fluggesellschaft heute künstlich angefeuerte Fäkalwinde von bis zu 12 Beaufort einbringen. Oh ja, die Welt ist dadurch sicher ein sooo viel besserer Ort geworden... 🙄
@@palomino73 Leider ist das wohl so. Auch wenn ich diese Zeit nicht erlebt habe und sich sicher nur die allerwenigsten derartige Flüge damals leisten konnten, vermisst man heute so einiges bei vielen Airlines. Gottlob nicht bei allen. Auch die Sprache hatte damals noch Stil, der ganze Genderschrott spielte keine Rolle. Einiges war schon besser damals glaube ich, vor allem das Miteinander.
Nice promo, but remember it was filmed on the ground, 4,100m wasn’t so smooth of a flight and four large piston engines made a lot of noise! Lots of flying around clouds and storms. My Father flew a Flying Tigers DC-7 from Hamburg to Idlewild back in 1956 with two stops in Greenland and Gander, 8,000 ft was max altitude, at night all he could see were flames coming out of the engines.
I agree that being on a plane during the 1950s was a good experience. Friendly staff on the ground and in the air who were friendly and willing to assist. And oh how I missed the comfortable seats and the LEGROOM!!! My first time on a plane was a Stratocruiser but I was on a Constellation and Super Constellation as well as others. These were CONFORTABLE, you know, no cramped cabins, bad food and lousy on-time performance.
VARIG Brasil had a fleet of 6 L1049 Super Gs. Four were dismantled almost at the same time, one in Congonhas Airport Base the other three in Porto Alegre Maintenance Headquarters. I can't barelly imagine the process of turning 4 perfect aircrafts in a pile of junk. It too hapenned soon after to Convair 240 fleet. Very sad.
It's kind of amazing to me looking at this in 2021 how short the reign of the Constellation really was. I'm 60 years old, and the Boeing 747 was just retired from passenger service last year. I remember reading about the debut flight of the 747 when I was in first grade. (By the way, this is the best quality VHS rip that I've ever seen. )
You got it all right. English would have been nice to hear this Clear Video. One would think with American Hollywoods Great pictures we would see 100's of this clarity in moving Pictures. But algorithms all way's on top of what it is.
@@DerQn66 Das ist doch internationaler Standard beim checkup, aber warum muss man heutzutage immer mehr englische wörter zur deutschen sprache hinzufügen ? Es gibt schon mehr deutsche wörter als im englischen
Niemand könnte mir heute einen 15 h Flug ohne flaches Bett, mit Rauchern, vier Propellermotoren, Tiefkühlkost und mit dem Geruckel in 4100 m Höhe als Luxus oder Komfort verkaufen.
Da haben nicht nur die Propellermotoren gequalmt, sondern auch noch die Passagiere 🗣💨💨💨....😉. Und dann diese Küchengardinen vor den Fenstern....einfach süß 😚
diese angenehme, heiter klingende weibliche stimme vermisse ich im fernseher heutzutage. entweder haben die sprecherinnen eine ernste, tiefe, triste monotonstimme oder sprechen prolodeutsch wenn es sich um junge frauen handelt.
ich vermute eher 4000m (12000 Fuss/feet) bis Paris. Fuer den Transatlantikabschnitt eher 7000-8000m (21000...24000 Ft), dar war man meist aus dem Wetter raus...
@@christophersw8994Dienstgipfelhöhe bei diesem Typ waren 7600m, wohlgemerkt, max. Höhe. Geflogen wurde immer wesentlich darunter, weil höher im Gegensatz zu Strahlflugzeugen unwirtschaftlich wurde, weil je geringer der Luftdruck, desto geringer der Wirkungsgrad der Propeller.
Und ich war Kind in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren und möchte in diese Zeit gar nicht mehr zurück. So schön war diese Zeit nämlich gar nicht. Nur eben anders. Ruhiger war sie jedenfalls.
Ironically, at the time this film was made, Lufthansa couldn't fly in or out of Berlin. That was because West Berlin was located within East Germany, which only allowed airlines of the 4 countries that had occupied their portion of the city at the end of World War II to use the airport.
Very different times, those tickets would have been hugely expensive compared to now. No GPS for the pilots either, long served old fashioned navigation.
Großartiger Film! Es erstaunt, wie luxuriös die Ausstattung der Connie doch war. Es ist eine Schande, dass Lufthansa die Restaurierung ihrer Connie abgebrochen hat (obwohl der finanzielle Aufwand einem schon die Tränen in die Augen treibt).
Ich glaube der Film mit den Innenaufnahmen wurde am Boden gefilmt. Und alle Passagiere waren Schauspieler oder zumindest Komparsen. Sieht man auch daran, weil alle Vorhänge geschlossen waren.
A much more gracious time for sure,,,before planes became buses...but then flying was reserved for the more affluent for sure, Love the kid in the cockpit,,,,days of innocence long gone,
Vom Erstflug 1950 bis November 2023 kam es mit Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation zu 111 Totalschäden von Flugzeugen. Bei 58 davon kamen 1094 Menschen ums Leben. Abenteuer fliegen 😊.
So ist es eine tendenziell Darstellung. Bitte die Unfälle mit Connies entsprechenden Unfallkategorien zuordnen und die dann mit DC4 / DC 6 / DC 7 vergleichen. UND noch unterscheiden die Unfälle bis ca. 1967 ( Rückzug aus Linendienst) von den Unfällen die danach bei zweifelhaften Buschflugzeug-Betreibern sich ereigneten
Very true and certainly compared with UK, but the Germans were given much encouragement and finance from USA and above all worked so hard for their deserved post war success at this time.
@@SDD3204 the U.K. also received finance from the USA under the Marshall Plan after WWII. I think the difference is that West Germany only had one way to go - onward and upwards without looking back. People in the U.K. however continue to bang on about winning WWII (usually overlooking the fact we were part of the Allied Forces which won together)
@@michduncg It seems I fell for the myth that UK did not get Marshall Plan Aid after the war, and that such MP aid was purely aimed at European countries in danger of becoming Communist, through their austerity. UK was not only psychologically burdened with looking backwards but with unrealisable feelings of current post war responsiblilities for the Empire and the desire to maintain their world prestige. UK was bankrupt and yet burdened with responsibilities and massive wartime loans from USA to pay back too. The thread of a nuclear attack from the east was also very high in our priorities too and I believe 50% of UK's rather meagre GDP was devoted to defence for many years too. Then there was the imementation of The Beveridge Plan, NHS and Welfare post war too. I certainly found the contrast in wealth and appearances between UK and WG in 1963 quite extraordinary as a 7 year old. IMHO UK did not catch up post-war until firmly in EEC/EU under Tony Blair gd&r...
By 1955, West Germany had already overtaken the UK in terms of GDP. The Marshall Plan played a rather small role in this, however, and it was only loans that had to be repaid. The UK received the funds of the Marshall Plan as a gift from the USA. A big problem for the UK was that after WW2 it was no longer possible to exploit the colonies to the same extent as before.
The golden age of air travel,sixty years later it's not so glamorous is it. Lufthansa only operated four Starliners and a couple of years later with the arrival of the Boeing 707 the Starliner was pushed on to less important Lufthansa routes.
Oh Mann, so eine lässig-gelassene Art einen Flug zu bewerkstelligen, und dann noch der Service, die Beinfreiheit, die ganze Zeit und ... 08:56 Versucht das mal heutzutage.
I remember very well the days they wrote tickets by hand before computers and printers. Every ticket had 3 carbon copies. The agent had to press hard. As you can see the Germans kept their aircraft in pristine condition.
Das war ein fortlaufender Prozess und begann schon in den späten 1950iger Jahren. Ab 1960 mit den ersten Jets baute Lufthansa dann eine technische Basis am Frankfurter Flughafen aus. Aber auch ab dann gingen viele Flüge von Frankfurt erstmal via Hamburg, vor allem nach Nordamerika und Japan über die Polstrecke via Anchorage, Alaska. Am Frankfurter Flughafen war auch einfach viel mehr Platz für neue und größere Gebäude als in Fuhlsbüttel. Eingetragen ist die Lufthansa aber beim Amtsgericht Köln. Rein rechtlich also ´ne Kölsche Firma.
When i was a kid me all my family have flown with Air France from Paris CDG to Tokyo vie Anchorage... much before Russia authorized european airlines to use his territory to go to eastern Asia.... Now things went back to 40 years back ago.. My Dad was fixing luxury furnitures and he was called by a japanese business living on the Riviera and Japan...
Ach ja, das beste 3-motorige Flugzeug der Welt 🤣🤣🤣 . Aber eine herrliche Maschine. Wobei ich bei 15 h zum Big Apple mit Zwischenlandungen, dem Lärm in der Kabine und dem lebhaften Flug durch das Wetter A380 und B747 doch vorziehe
Mein Liebling war die DC-10, *viel* komfortabler als die 747. Aber da ja fast meine gesamte Familie bei Boeing arbeitet, die 707 war auch sehr schön *...*
