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sff: Fly Girls
This is a fifty-minute program about the WASP for PBS' The American Experience.
Amusingly, narrated by Mary McDonnell.
It wasn't bad, I thought it was a nice over-view, even if they didn't really examine a lot of the inner politics that were going on at the time (or mention that they managed to get veterans' status in the 70s).
The one thing that jarred was the entire glossing over of Nancy Love's contribution--in fact, the historian claimed that none of it would ever have happened without Jackie Cochran, and, er. I agree that the large-scale WASP program wouldn't have happened, but Nancy Love's WAFS was already going when Cochran arrived on the scene and threw a fit because she wasn't in charge.
(basically, in fandom terms, Cochran is totally one of those gamer grrls who isn't like all those other bitches. Which, y'know, it's her right, but it's still obnoxious to read/hear about)
Especially since two of the interviewees were part of Love's original group (and they had voice-overs from a third). But no mention was made of the fact that they hadn't been through Cochran's training program.
But it was totally awesome to put faces and voices to names I'd only read about.
Amusingly, narrated by Mary McDonnell.
It wasn't bad, I thought it was a nice over-view, even if they didn't really examine a lot of the inner politics that were going on at the time (or mention that they managed to get veterans' status in the 70s).
The one thing that jarred was the entire glossing over of Nancy Love's contribution--in fact, the historian claimed that none of it would ever have happened without Jackie Cochran, and, er. I agree that the large-scale WASP program wouldn't have happened, but Nancy Love's WAFS was already going when Cochran arrived on the scene and threw a fit because she wasn't in charge.
(basically, in fandom terms, Cochran is totally one of those gamer grrls who isn't like all those other bitches. Which, y'know, it's her right, but it's still obnoxious to read/hear about)
Especially since two of the interviewees were part of Love's original group (and they had voice-overs from a third). But no mention was made of the fact that they hadn't been through Cochran's training program.
But it was totally awesome to put faces and voices to names I'd only read about.