''Jet Carrier'' is a 1954 American
short
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documentary film
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produced by
Otto Lang
:''see also Otto Lang (film producer) and Otto Lang (actor)''
Otto Emil Lang, (born May 14, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician.
Life and career
Lang was born in Handel, Saskatchewan. In 1961, he was appointed Dean of Law at the U ...
as a
CinemaScope
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Special. It was nominated for two
Academy Awards
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- one for
Best Documentary Short, and the other for
Best Two-Reel Short.
It was filmed aboard the
aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
USS ''
Yorktown.''
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1954 films
1954 short films
1954 documentary films
American short documentary films
Documentary films about military aviation
20th Century Fox short films
1950s short documentary films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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