The film Airport contains everything an audience could want in two hours and fifteen minutes suspense, romance, drama, and comedy. The movie shows events that take place at Lincoln Airport and on a plane that is bound for Rome. Mel Bakersfeld, the manager of Lincoln Airport, must deal with the worst blizzard in a decade, a wife that wants a divorce, and a major runway blocked by an airliner stuck in a snowdrift. The runway must be cleared in order for Bakersfeld’s brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest, to land a plane that has just had a mentally disturbed passenger blow himself up in the bathroom.
This movie uses many variations of the split screen. In one scene Mel Bakersfeld is talking on the phone to his wife and we see them both with a split screen but his daughter also gets on another phone to
Airport proved to be very successful. It was among the top grossing films of 1970 bringing in seven digit box office numbers and giving birth to an entire film genre-the disaster movie. Airport also went on to win six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Helen Hayes, Ada Quonsett, went on to win a supporting award. Airport spawned almost a decade’s worth of big-budget disaster films, including three sequels. Then in 1980 beginning with Airplane! another round of disaster movies began.
talk to him and then the screen is split three ways. In another scene Ada Quonsett had escaped from Peter Coakley so Mel had the Airport security to look for her. The four corners of the screen show the security looking for her while the middle of the screen shows the people in the airport.
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