Film and Television

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Our work has been seen in countless films,
 including Finding Neverland, Brigit Jones' Diary, The Fantastic Voyage and Get Shorty,

Foy on Television
Flying by Foy has been a fixture in television production since the milestone broadcast of Mary Martin in Peter Pan in 1956.  Hardly a day goes by without one of our projects being broadcast either live or in syndication. When shows such as Saturday Night Live or The Colbert Report need a little lift, they call on Flying by Foy.

Our work is in particular demand for Award Shows. In 2009 alone, A sample of our flying for BILLY ELLIOT was performed at the 63rd Annual
Tony Awards in June. Recording artist Katy Perry made a memorable entrance on a flying banana for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, and actor Dwayne Johnson (“The Rock”) flew over the audience and through a brick wall to kick off the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Neal Patrick Harris made a flying entrance as the host of the TV Land Awards, which also boasted a flying sequence with “the Bugaloos” as a part of the show’s tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft. The American hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas performed their hit I Gotta Feelin’ on flying surfboards for the Teen Choice Awards, and pop singer Lady Gaga ascended from a gaggle of faux paparazzi at the MTV Video Music Awards.

[Shown Below: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin make a grand flying entrance at the 2010 Academy Awards with Sam Champion flying by balloon at the followup the next morning on Good Morning America]


 
Most of our film and video work is accomplished at the major studios and broadcast facilities, or on location. However, we also operate our own sound stage in Las Vegas and Green-Screen studio in London. For certain specialized work, it is often more convenient for production companies to use our studios directly.

Scenic Automation

From time to time we fabricate automated solutions in the TV/film industry where flight is NOT involved. The movement of this wall from the UK TV show, Are You Smarter Than a Ten-Year-Old, was fabricated in our UK Shop
Yes indeed The Flying Nun was one of our projects. Less known, but of more lasting influence was our pioneering work on the three seasons of Men Into Space, which literally ushered in the era of manned space flight.

Our Most influential work never broadcast!

In 1969, in preparation for the first manned moon landing, NASA engaged the services of Peter Foy to provide live simulations to the media in the event that the broadcast equipment in space failed (as was the case on an earlier Gemini mission).  Of course sensible people realize that what we saw on TV was  the actual landing, but nevertheless, the Foy/NASA team was at the ready. Perhaps the many strange rumors started from this experience.