A 707 in those days was as common as a 737 these days. But an Air France 707 was an aircraft which represented foreign travel. Whenever I watched films in the 1960's at the Vogue Theater near the house, or the Park Theater in Huntington Park, I was thrilled to see an airliner depicted somewhere during the film, landing, taking off, taxiing, or parked.
THE PARENT TRAP: United Airlines Convair 240 or 340
THAT TOUCH OF MINK: Pan American 707s
WHERE THE BOYS ARE: Air France Caravelle
A NEW KIND OF LOVE: SAS DC-8 (though I do not believe Americans could take an SAS DC-8 from New York City to Paris, France)
WHAT A WAY TO GO: TWA 707 exterior, disguised, though the interior was of a private aircraft
THE UGLY AMERICAN: TWA 880 (though one landing in Southeast Asia made little sense)
DO NOT DISTURB: Lufthansa 707, supposedly flying from London to Paris. Again, could people living in London take a German airline to Paris?
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER: United DC-8
The most entertaining flubs were when they would show one airliner such as a DC-8 taking off and then a 707 landing, as if the passengers and crew changed aircraft midflight. Or, worse, depicting the landing gear deploying upon landing when it was the unique gear of an Air Force B-52 bomber, not a civilian 707 or DC-8.
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