First In-Flight Movies

About the first in-flight movies in history in 1925.

UNUSUAL FIRSTS

THE FIRST IN-FLIGHT MOVIES

During an Imperial Airways flight to the Continent in April, 1925, the first in-flight movie, First National's production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, was featured. Regular in-flight movies began on July 19, 1961, with the showing of By Love Possessed on a TWA flight between New York and Los Angeles.