Q: As a youngster I watched the Disneyland TV show that ran on Sunday evenings from 1954–58. They had a show featuring the history of flight, which aired several times. The first time it was aired, the segment on World War I aerial combat had animated footage of a biplane being hit by machine gun fire, its pilot slumping forward and the plane tilting and falling out of the frame. In subsequent rebroadcasts of this show that scene was edited out. As originally aired, the scene comes immediately after the explanation of synchronized machine guns that enabled the pilot to fire forward through the propeller blades. My question to you is how can I again see that missing scene?
Stephen, El Paso, Texas
A: There is no indication in the production files for Victory Through Air Power, from which that animated segment was taken, of the scene you describe. The files only mention the plane being shot down.
Dave Smith