Flying Blind Using System OSP

Name: Flying Blind Using System OSP
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-01-26

An instructional film introducing the OSP navigation system for guiding military aircraft in poor lighting conditions.

Létání bez vidu podle systému OSP

František Vláčil

Czechoslovakia 1963

Czech

49 min.

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This film is available until 31. 12. 2025 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

About

In 1951, František Vláčil moved from Brno to Prague, where he worked for the Czechoslovak Army Film until 1958. In total, he made around thirty instructional and documentary films for the Czechoslovak Army. Flying Blind Using System OSP introduces a system for guiding aircraft. The opening black-and-white sequence, staging the landing of an aircraft complicated by bad weather and poor visibility, was shot by cameraman Josef Illík. After the dramatic introduction, which, like many sequences in Vláčil's later films, is told only in images, follows a colour section in the form of a lecture for pilots. The audience is presented with the OSP navigation system used in aviation in poor lighting conditions.

Credits

Director: František Vláčil

Based on: Josef Jurášek

Screenplay: František Vláčil

Cinematography: Josef Illík

Sound: Karel Cajthaml, Stanislav Cajthaml

Editing: Vlasta Plotěná

Production Design: Chrudoš Uher

Producer: Antonín Holan

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