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Wings was the opening film of the 17th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2012.	D
William A. Wellman: During the final battle scene, Wellman, portraying a doughboy, is shot and excla [...]	D
The "push" shot of the camera passing over the series of tables and between the patrons in the night [...]	D
The entire score was written, composed, and recorded using a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ.	D
As the first Best Picture winner, Wings immediately set a precedent that lasts to this day: front-ru [...]	D
Wings was the very first winner of the category of Best Picture, then called "Best Production," at t [...]	D
The "German" fighters in the film are actually Curtiss P-1 "Hawks".	D
Assuming its copyright has not lapsed already, this film and all others registered in 1929 enter the [...]	D
The music used to accompany the dogfights in the score by J.S. Zamecnik is based on Felix Mendelssoh [...]	D
Clara Bow wasn't happy with appearing in the film, as she knew her part was merely decorative.	D
Wings is also one of the first widely released films to show nudity. In the enlistment office are nu [...]	D
First film for legendary costume designer Edith Head.	D
When Wings was revived in 1981 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Carmine Coppola conduc [...]	D
Richard Arlen adopted a Mexican hairless dog named Dynamite while on location for this movie in Texa [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
When the budget was proving an issue, Paramount head Jesse L. Lasky went to the War Department and m [...]	D
William A. Wellman (Jack) is shown playing a trombone. He actually did play the trombone in real lif [...]	D
Director William A. Wellman had his cinematographer Harry Perry lash his cameras to the stunt planes [...]	D
In contrast to co-star Richard Arlen, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers did not know how to fly a plane when pr [...]	D
The only movie to ever win an Academy Award for Best Production. In the Oscars' first year of existe [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...]	D
Wings debuted as a road show film, meaning it's shown on a city-by-city basis, on August 1, 1927. Al [...]	D
Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston met on the set and were married during production. Their marriage l [...]	D
Gary Cooper's two-minute appearance effectively made him a star and it also marked the beginning of [...]	D
The Battle of St. Mihiel was meticulously staged, with William A. Wellman spending ten days choreogr [...]	D
Paramount Pictures was keen to exploit the presence and reputation of Clara Bow by inserting a scene [...]	D
William A. Wellman looked at 35 actors before casting Gary Cooper. Although only a tiny role, it set [...]	D
For the film's restoration, the original score was unearthed from the Library of Congress. It was be [...]	D
Charles Farrell and Neil Hamilton were the original choices for the male leads, but were eventually [...]	D
The only silent movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture (then called "Best Production"), until The A [...]	D
This was William A. Wellman's 12th film.	D
For the scene in which William A. Wellman becomes drunk, the intoxication displayed on screen w [...]	D
One of only six films to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without its director being nominated [...]	D
As a former pilot, director William A. Wellman knew how vital it was to have clouds for the dogfight [...]	D
Was lost for decades until a copy was discovered languishing in the Cinematheque Francaise film arch [...]	D
This was one of the few films to win the Oscar for Best Picture without also being nominated for Bes [...]	D
This film played in theaters for 63 weeks upon initial release. One of the reasons why it was such a [...]	D
When William A. Wellman landed the job of director, the film had already been in production for four [...]	D
With the thousands of extras battling on the ground, dozens of airplanes flying around in the sky an [...]	D
Wings contains some of the earliest footage of onscreen nudity (mostly male).	D
The only Best Picture Oscar winner starring Gary Cooper.	D
"Wings" had a huge budget of $2 million and took nine months to shoot.	D
As of 2016, this is the first of twelve movies to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without rec [...]	D
Co-stars William A. Wellman and Richard Arlen were reunited in Petticoat Junction: Wings (1968) as t [...]	D
Much of the film was based on the experiences of director William A. Wellman as a combat pilot durin [...]	D
One of two Oscar winners for Best Picture whose title has only one syllable. The other is Crash: Con [...]	D
According to biographer David Stenn, Clara Bow did not like her military uniform, as it did not show [...]	D
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers logged over 800 hours of flying time during the making of the film. He would [...]	D
The dolly shot was achieved with a special-built inverted rig hanging from an overhead rail. When pr [...]	D
A scene of an aerial raid on a German troop train was filmed but not used. It later turned up as par [...]	D
Soldiers from the army's 2nd Infantry Division, as well as members of the Texas National Guard, stat [...]	D
When Budd Schulberg landed the job of head of production at Paramount, he brought only two contracte [...]	D
The only movie to win an Academy Award for Engineering Effects.	D
The climactic battle scene involved 3500 soldiers and dozens of planes and was shot in one take that [...]	D
Director William A. Wellman's wife, Margery Chapin, and daughter, Gloria Wellman, played the peasant [...]	D
Producer Lucien Hubbard hired William A. Wellman because of his WWI aviator experience. Richard Arle [...]	D
Clara Bow became famous as the sexy 'It Girl'. Her box office power was formidable when she appeared [...]	D
Chocolate syrup was used as blood in the film.	D
Held the record for the Best Picture Oscar winner with the shortest name until Gigi (1958).	D
The U.S. military cooperated heavily in the making of this film, providing thousands of soldiers, mi [...]	D
When a preview was shown in San Antonio, Texas in the spring of 1927, the film was fourteen reels lo [...]	D
Richard Arlen, whose character is a fighter pilot, had actually been a pilot with the Royal Canadian [...]	D
This film marks the first time that actors were filmed flying in the air.	D
While many believe that this was the first movie to incorporate product placement (Hershey's Chocola [...]	D
Dick Grace, stunt flier, describes his experiences in making this film (and others) in the book Cras [...]	D
In 1925 and 1926, Byron Morgan sent ideas for a story about air service in World War I to Famous Pla [...]	D

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