An Animated Musical About Lilian Todd, First Woman To Design An Airplane

In 1910 , Didier Masson successfully flew a biplane designed and built by self - teach engineer Lilian Todd . In the short motion-picture show Miss Todd , Todd ’s life — with the challenge the came with being a woman in early aviation — is turned into an animated musical , although her life takes a more or less unlike turn .

Kristina Yee directed Miss Todd and atomic number 27 - wrote the film with Frances Poletti at the National Film and Television School . Miss Todd won a Student Academy Award in 2013 in the Foreign Film category . While it ’s a flake notional , it ’s a lovely solemnisation of one of air ’s pioneering womanhood .

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