Who Invented the Helicopter?

Written by Paul Moon

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After pioneering Russian aviation and creating many world firsts, Igor Sikorsky fled the Bolshevik revolution finally arriving in New York a penniless immigrant. While his contemporaries struggled in the new Soviet Union, Sikorsky once again built aircraft, this time in an abandoned chicken coop. He helped pioneer transatlantic flight with Charles Lindbergh and his S.42…

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Paul Moon

H. Paul Moon is a filmmaker based in New York City and Washington, D.C. whose works concentrate on the performing arts. Major films include “Sitka: A Piano Documentary” about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, “Quartet for the End of Time” about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition, and an acclaimed feature film about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber that premiered on PBS. Moon has created music videos for numerous composers including Moondog, Susan Botti and Angélica Negrón, and three opera films set in a community garden. His film “The Passion of Scrooge” was awarded “Critic's Choice” by Opera News as a “thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed” with “first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling.” Further highlights include works featured in exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art and the City Museum of New York, PBS television broadcasts, and best of show awards in over a dozen international film festivals.