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Father of the Flying Car
USA 2022
produced by Scott Hardie for Telegraph Hill
directed by Scott Hardie
starring Paul Moller, Zack Rabin, Rosa Maria Moller, Bruce Calkins, Dan Guitton, Jason Moller, Burt Rutan, Jennifer Moller, Don Lindsey, Lindsay Quarrie, John D'Alessandro, Hugh Power, Bob Basham, Jah Mackey, David Prather, Julie Clark, Guy Hooper, Chris Clay, Lance Fung, George Stevens, Akshay Joshi, Mike Weingart, James S. Toreson
written by Scott Hardie, music by Fabrizio Mancinelli
documentary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Now if a thing like a "flying car" is mentioned, the
according vehicle from 60s TV show The Jetsons will very
probably spring to mind - something this film very readily admits, too.
What most people don't know is that one man, Paul Moller, who taught
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California
from 1963 to 1975, has dedicated the last more than 4 decades to develop
just that with his company Moller International - with varying
degrees of success over the years: Now on one side, auxilliary technology
to make a flying car (including vertical take-off and landing) has been
rather clunky especially in past decades, and still isn't entirly up to
speed, then finding investors isn't easy as it's impossible when the
company will be able to turn a profit, with their central product, the Skycar,
still being years from perfection let alone mass marketing. On the plus
side, much of the technology that went into the Skycar is today applied
into ever more popular drones - and even if flying cars might still sound
like science fiction today, with the steady population growth and an ever
increasing unwillingness to plaster even more of the land with highways
and byways, taking the traffic to the skies will be the only logical
solution ... Now this is a truly fascinating documentary, and
not only because it covers an almost science fiction-like topic that went
under the radar for years and that's illustrated with some rather
spectacular real life footage from years and years of research. But the
film's not just a celebration of its subject matter but takes more serious
and not always flattering aspects of the subject matter into account -
only to make it a stronger story in the process. And many candid
interviews with Paul Moller himself as well as his second-in-command of
many years Zack Rabin, who both show their fascination for the idea, come
what may, give this a very relatable dimension, making this a highly
engaging and also entertaining documentary about something that sounds
like science fiction - but might not be much longer.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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