Alexandr Hackenschmied
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Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegfried George Hackenschmied, known later as Alexander Hammid, was a Czech-American photographer, film director, cinematographer and film editor. He immigrated
Alexander Hammid in a screenshot of the short film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
To Fly!
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To Fly! is a 1976 American short docudrama film directed by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman of MacGillivray Freeman Films, who wrote the story with Francis Thompson, Robert M. Young, and Arthur Zega
Alexandr Hackenschmied
…producing numerous "in-house" documentaries as well as several films for general viewership. One of the best known of these is the first IMAX format film, To Fly! (1976), which premiered at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) at the museum's grand opening celebration on July 1, 1976…
2013 theatrical release poster
Illustration of a proposed IMAX-decorated rotunda at the National Museum of Natural History; this was canceled for an IMAX theater at the National Air and Space Museum.
Art Scholl's "Super Chipmunk" (pictured 1968), used as a camera plane for the filming of To Fly!
Illustration of the new mattes for the multi-image scenes