Many movies were spectacular in the 40s & 50s.
So was air travel, quite the experience, where passengers were treated as near-royalty. Much above the cattle-cars-in-the-sky we’ve had for year.
[The air passengers, by and large, also comported themselves in a manner consistent with said treatment.]
...and dressed up to fly! My brothers and I fly east at my age 9 and I wore a sport coat and tie as did my 3 year older brother and younger one... ymmv