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Wurlitzer brings silent film ‘Wings’ 1927 back to life

Presented as part of the ‘Melting into Air’ cinema program, the Australian Cinémathèque at GOMA presents a Live Music & Film screening of silent blockbuster Wings 1927. This screening will feature live musical accompaniment from David Bailey on the Gallery’s 1929 Wurlitzer organ, adding drama and majesty to this unforgettable cinematic experience.

Wings | Tickets on sale now
1.30pm, Saturday 10 Dec 2022

A Wellman’s Wings follows two hometown friends who enlist to become combat pilots during the First World War. When not battling the enemy in the sky, they scheme against each other to win the heart of the woman they both love. Throughout their adventures, they encounter danger, romance and tragedy in a sensational Hollywood spectacle.

The film is a technical marvel, capturing feats of aviation daring that have to be seen to be believed. Featuring hundreds of extras and scores of planes, the legacy of

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A Lesser-Known Photo of an Iconic 9/11 Moment Brings Shades of Gray to the Day’s Memory | History

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM |
Sept. 8, 2021, 7 a.m.

Dan McWilliams made a spur-of-the-moment decision.

That morning, hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. By half past ten, both skyscrapers had collapsed. Fires burned and toxic ash choked the air in New York’s Financial District. Nobody yet knew how many people had died—save that the number would be “more than any of us can bear,” as Mayor Rudy Giuliani told reporters that afternoon.

McWilliams, a firefighter with Brooklyn’s Ladder 157, was walking past the North Cove marina, just a block from where the towers once stood, when he spotted an American flag on a yacht. Inspiration struck, and he took it, enlisting fellow firefighters George Johnson (also Ladder 157) and Bill Eisengrein (Rescue 2) to carry the flag to the southeast corner of the wreckage—what would later be dubbed “Ground Zero.”

Spotting a

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