6:15pm |  Prepare for non-stop laughter when Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is shown Thursday, July 21, at dusk at El Dorado Park, 2800 N. Studebaker Rd. 
  
It’s one of the first events in a six-month series aimed at marking the 100th anniversary of Calbraith “Cal” Perry Rodgers’ first transcontinental flight from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., to Long Beach, Calif., Sept.17 through Dec. 10, 1911. 
  
“This movie was released in 1965, but it is every bit as funny now,“ said Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske, who is hosting the event and spearheading the anniversary celebration. 
  
The movie is set in 1910, one year before Rodgers’ flight. A British newspaper offers a 10,000-pound prize for the first person to fly across the English Channel.  It has many sub-plots and many familiar stars, including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Red Skelton, Terry Thomas and Benny Hill. 
  
“We Can Soar” trip-for-two opportunity tickets will be on sale at the movie,  $10 for one, $50 for six. The winner will be drawn at the We Can Soar Hangar Dance and Dinner on Oct. 29. 
  
There will be another aviation themed movie at El Dorado Park August 25th. The Great Waldo Pepper is about how one pilot uses post-World War I stunts to prove himself, when he missed out on the war. 
  
For information, call 562-570-6932 and visit  VinFizLongBeach.com.