Cinema in the Sky: A History of In-flight Movies
4 min readJul 19, 2021
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the first in-flight movie shown on a domestic airline, which helped make long, cross-continental trips a little more tolerable (depending on the movie, of course).
The history of jet airplane transportation is a fascinating one. The arrival and immediate popularity of jet service in 1958 changed the world in countless ways that we take for…