Robert Fulton's Pilot Notes ~ "The Journals of a Solitary Aviator"
Produced and Directed by Vladimir Van Maule
“It takes one third of the time to get on location, and third of the time to wait for the weather, and one third to wait for South America”.
— Robert Fulton
By all accounts it was a monumental task: a light single-engine aircraft and one pilot/cameraman were to cover the continent, given a mandate to fly into areas so remote they would be the first images recorded there. A year later, legendary aerial cinematographer Robert Fulton had flown over just about every peak, river, glacier, volcano and jungle of the Andes.
At times suggestive of the writings of St. Exuperay’s aviator days in Patagonia decades before, this is a film that goes to the heart and muscle of flight and photography. Each drop of fuel, each inch of celluloid, and every knot of wind becoming part of the calculus - and the Andes under our feet.
an Maule