{"id":23126,"date":"2022-04-29T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23126"},"modified":"2022-04-29T00:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T04:26:04","slug":"sky-high-amusement-1930s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sky-high-amusement-1930s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"sky high amusement 1930s style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23127\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Early-example-of-in-flight-movies-1930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23127\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23127\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Early-example-of-in-flight-movies-1930-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">passengers while away the time when flying high above the ocean<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. This pictorial courtesy of the <em>Illustrated London News<\/em> in 1930 shows the inside of a transcontinental aircraft &#8211; very cramped unlike today&#8217;s wide bodied aircraft &#8211; and the use of an amateur projector to show movies while flying over the Atlantic. In this photo, a curtain obscures all but a slice of the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1930s, one had to be rather wealthy to fly, not like today where the aircraft are more in line with bus service.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to our good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, for suggesting this photo and the history it displays to passengers of aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. This pictorial courtesy of the Illustrated London News in 1930 shows the inside of a transcontinental aircraft &#8211; very cramped unlike today&#8217;s wide bodied aircraft &#8211; and the use of an amateur projector to show movies while flying over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sky-high-amusement-1930s-style\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[3456,1284,2633,495],"class_list":["post-23126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-3456","tag-aircraft","tag-flying","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23130,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions\/23130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}