One Six Right

The subject of the documentary is an airport. It is Van Nuys, in southern California. Large passenger aircraft do not land there. This is an airport for small aeroplanes. The film takes its name from the number of the runway. The account starts with the founding of the field. It shows what has changed over the years. Pilots, engineers and students speak. What learning to fly is like is set out. Airports of this kind draw complaints about noise. Talk of closing them comes up constantly. The film makes a case against that criticism. Photography from the air is at the front of it. Sydney Pollack and Lorenzo Lamas speak in the seventy three minute documentary, an American production Brian Terwilliger finished in 2005.