Early sci-fi movie on fight between zeppelins and planes. Watching this movie - a part from the element that's in common with all origin's movies, so the sense of pioneering, the experiments with film's materials - gives to you a sense of power and meaninglessness at the same time for what is one of the most ancient human desire: fly. In 1909 we are in the period in which rudimental planes starts to go on, and that's a really point of evolution for man: he is far away from earth. So this movie has to be remembered also as a philosophical and historical document of this sense of power and weakness of man, this fundamental relation between desire, sky, technology and war.
Review of The Battle in the Clouds
