1. The Aviator

3. Historical Themes Entrepreneurship American Icon(s) Film Industry
Aviation Industry
America in the 20s, 30s, 40s
Mental Health Issues

8. Cornelius Vanderbilt
1869 purchased and merged three short New York railroads to form New York Central
1871 began building Grand Central Terminal in NYC
Net Worth Today: $185 Billion

12. Henry Ford Young Entrepreneur who began selling his Model T in 1908
To do this, he used the Assembly Line to increase amount of cars he could manufacture
Net worth today: $199 Billion

15. Howard Hughes
Aviator
Movie Director and Producer
Entrepreneur/Innovator
Very Wealthy: Estimated Net Worth today $3.8 Billion
“I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire…. I'm a billionaire”

17. Movie Production Code
1920s, 40 million Americans on average went to movies each week
Will Hayes created the self-policing code: Avoid Government Intervention
Restricted language, sex, and crime
"The code sets up high standards of performance for motion-picture producers," "It states the considerations which good taste and community value make necessary in this universal form of entertainment."

23. Historical Liberties/Inaccuracies
No mention of pilot deaths in H.A.
Some events out of order
Hercules only flew for 20 seconds and only got 70 feet above water
Movie ends in 1947: 30 years before Hughes dies

24. Summarize the movie. Setting, Main Characters, Main Plot, etc….
How did Howard Hughes change the film and aviation industries?
What risks did Hughes have to take to achieve everything he did?
Review the movie. Was it good/bad? Was it historically relevant/accurate? What parts can we learn from? Is there anything that you know is totally false and does that affect the quality?