Flying Padre

Infobox Film
name = Flying Padre


image_size = 215px
caption = A scene from "Flying Padre"
director = Stanley Kubrick
producer = Burton Benjamin
writer = Stanley Kubrick
narrator = Bob Hite
starring = Fred Stadmueller
music = Nathaniel Shilkret
cinematography = Stanley Kubrick
editing = Isaac Kleinerman
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released =
runtime = 9 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0043548

"Flying Padre" is a 1951 short subject black-and-white documentary film, which is notable as the second picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, after "Day of the Fight". The film is nine minutes long.

tory

The subject of "Flying Padre" is a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico, Father Fred Stadtmuller. Because his 400-square mile parish is so large, he uses a Piper Cub airplane (named the "Spirit of St. Joseph") to travel from one isolated settlement to another. The film shows him providing spiritual guidance, giving sermons at funerals, and serving as an impromptu air ambulance by flying a sick child and his mother to hospital.

Production

After Kubrick sold his first short film, the self-financed "Day of the Fight", to RKO in fy|1951 for $4000 (pocketing a $100 profit), the company advanced the 23-year-old filmmaker money to make a documentary short for their "Pathe Screenliner" series. "Flying Padre" was the result. [ [http://pages.prodigy.com/kubrick/kubbio.htm "Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker - Biography/Chronology] ]

In a interview in 1969, Kubrick referred to "Flying Padre" as "silly".Joseph Gelmis [http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html "An Interview With Stanley Kubrick (1969)] , excerpted from "The Film Director as Superstar" New York: Doubleday, 1970.]

The film is narrated by CBS announcer Bob Hite. [Hite was an announcer and anchor for CBS from 1944-1979, during which time he was announcer for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite". Prior to joining CBS, Hite was at WXYZ, Detroit, where he narrated the old radio shows such as "The Lone Ranger", "The Green Hornet", "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon", and "The Shadow". IMDB [http://imdb.com/name/nm0386922/ Bob Hite (II)] ]

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External links

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* " [http://pages.prodigy.com/kubrick/kubfp.htm Flying Padre] " at [http://pages.prodigy.com/kubrick/Stanley Kubrick: Master Filmmaker]
* " [http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/early/padre.html Flying Padre] " at [http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/ Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide]
* [http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kubrick.fr%2Fflyingpadre.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 Flying Padre] (Translated from French to English by Google)
* [http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/ The Kubrick Site]