 I don't think they had the audio speakers ready yet or something, but I'm not sure why they would show up. Well, you had to buy the little headset, too. You had to pay like a buck for a headset. Now you can just watch from the back of the seat in front of you. Or you have all your little contraptions and everything else. But in 1961, the first in-flight movie was done on TWA. It was Howdy Chicago.