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The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

1978 film by Ben Shedd
Movie short_film Q2411430
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The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

Summary

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor received the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[3].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's instance of is recorded as short film[4].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's director is recorded as Ben Shedd[5].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's genre is recorded as documentary film[6].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's cast member is recorded as Bryan Allen[7].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0077564[8].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's color is recorded as color[10].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's publication date is recorded as +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z[12].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04792wr[13].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's main subject is recorded as aviation[14].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's nominated for is recorded as Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[15].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Flight of the Gossamer Condor'}[16].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+27'}[17].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 221383[18].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 109587[19].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's TMDB movie ID is recorded as 243623[20].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Letterboxd film ID is recorded as the-flight-of-the-gossamer-condor[21].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Academy Awards Database film ID is recorded as 3091[22].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's ACMI ID is recorded as works/67624[23].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Plex media key is recorded as 5d776a849ab5440021500093[24].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Kinobox film ID is recorded as 146151[25].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's TheTVDB movie ID is recorded as 111186[26].
  • The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's Trakt.tv film ID is recorded as 148358[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's director is recorded as Ben Shedd[5]. Its cast member is recorded as Bryan Allen[7].

Publication

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's publication date is recorded as +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z[12]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is recorded as documentary film[6].

Subject and Themes

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor's main subject is recorded as aviation[14].

Reception

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor received the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[3].

Why It Matters

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor ranks in the top 6% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

FAQs

What awards did The Flight of the Gossamer Condor receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[3].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Kinopoisk. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . The Movie Database. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . acmi.net.au. acmi.net.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Trakt.tv. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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