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TV series (2009 / 2011 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017 Season 5 in progress)
AKA: Verschollene Filmschätze

Starring:
Actors of the real events, depending the subject of each episode.

Based on then "news" footage, each episode is a recall of an event, mainly how it has been reported and sometimes which could be its origins or its consequences. But always through the camera ...

Season One

Episode One

1927. Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

Unidentified Aircraft

Alcock and Brown are the very first to cross the Atlantic in 1919; here they are handling a model of a unspecified aircraft.

Morane-Saulnier AI Master

Charles Nungesser and one of his private aircraft.

François Coli who was the navigator of Charles Nungesser in their unsuccessfull trial to cross the Atlantic ocean, few days before Lindbergh's one.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Dewoitine D.1 Ter

Lioré et Olivier LeO 21 & Farman F.60 Goliath

Seen at the first rank at Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget in 1926 or 1927, both are are used by Air Union.

Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft. Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.

Same location Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget in other movies at Frequently Seen Location.

Farman F120 Jabiru

Just before taking off for Brussel, the Ryan is rolled out from the hangar where it spent the night alongside with a Farman F120 at Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.

Curtiss JN Jenny

Episode Two

1944. De Gaulle in Free Paris.
Only in the far background, a light observation plane overflies the Arc de Triomphe ceremony. Due to the condition of light, it's just a shadow invisible on the screenshot.
On that day, it could be a light observation plane of the US Army or a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (as two of them have been captured by French Underground and wearing two 'P' miroring letters (for 'Prefecture de Police')).

Episode Three

1934. Killing of the king of Yugoslavia.
No aircraft.

Episode Four

1910. Buffalo Bill.
No aircraft.

Episode Five

1963. Funeral of J. F. Kennedy.

Boeing VC-137C Air Force One

Same aircraft seen in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Sikorsky VH-3A Sea King

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

Episode Six

1946. Nuclear trials at Bikini.
Look Mysteres d'archives: 1946, Essais Atomiques a Bikini for the numerous planes seen in this episode.

Episode Seven

1937. Crash du Hindenburg.
Look the former page at Mysteres d'archives: 1937 crash du Hindenburg to discover the eight types of aircraft or dirigible seen in this episode.

Episode Eight

1954. Marilyn Monroe in Korea.

Bell OH-13 Sioux

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

Sikorsky H-19C

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Douglas C-54A Skymaster

North American L-17A Navion

Episode Nine

1955. Drama at Le Mans.

Bristol 170 Mk 21 Freighter

Four days before the race, a racing car enthusiast is the witness (through his camera) of the unloading of the Jaguar team.

Episode Ten

1969. Live from the Moon.

General Dynamics/Convair SM-65 Atlas

Boeing-Douglas-North American Saturn V Apollo 11

Same rocket in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Mittlewerk EWM A4 Vergeltungswaffe V-2

Grumman Lunar Module

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Sputnik

Season Two

Episode One

1953. Coronation of Elisabeth II.
No aircraft.

Episode Two

1936. Lindbergh's child kidnaping.

Lockheed 8C Sirius

Registration NR211, serial no. 140 produced for Charles Lindbergh.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Episode Three

1978. Khmer Rouge.

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Cessna A-37B Dragonfly

Douglas C-47

Antonov An-24RV

December 1977, one of the very few official visit during the Khmer Rouge years : Prince Souphanouvong from Laos.

Episode Four

1959. Tour de France.

Aérospatiale SA 316B Alouette II

Bell 47G

Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil

Episode Five

1989. Tiananmen Square.

Ilyushin Il-62M

Arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev at Beijin on 15 may 1989.

Tupolev Tu-114

Khrushchev visits Beijing in 1958.

Unidentified Aircraft

Behind the reporters, an unidentified jetliner which masks the tail of one of the HeavyLift aircarft.

Episode Six

1956. Grace Kelly's wedding.

SNCASE SE.535 Mistral

SNCASO SO.1221 Djinn

Episode Seven

1967. De Gaulle's journey in Québec

Lockheed L-188 Electra

Upper right corner, what seems to be a L-188 in the distance.

Douglas DC-8-55

Episode Eight

1963. JFK at Berlin.

Boeing VC-137C Air Force One

Same aircraft seen in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Boeing 707

Unidentified Aircraft

Episode Nine

1971. Splendors of the Shah of Iran in Persepolis.

Agusta-Bell 212

In the beginning of this episode, two VIP Bell helicopter could be seen, in white and blue.

Agusta-Bell 205

In the background, a military one and a red and white (civil ?) one.

Episode Ten

1975. The Fall of Saigon.

Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stalion

Sikorsky HRS-1

Unidentified Aircraft

A french single engine aircraft firing a rocket salvo. It could be a Grumman (F6F or F8F or TBF Avenger) or a Curtiss Helldiver or a Vought F4U Corsair (AU-1 or F4U-7).

Bell 204B

Registration N1306X.

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Bell 205

Bell UH-1H

This one from the US Army

Another one, this time of the VNAF.

Boeing Vertol CH-46D Sea Knight

Various Helicopters

From the upper left and clockwise : CH-46, UH-1, VNAF UH-1H, UH-1H all being off boarded.
The last one seen in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Season Three

Episode One

2001. Burial of Massoud.

Mil Mi-17

Episode Two

1897. President Felix Faure in Marseille.
No aircraft.

Episode Three

1945. Surrendering of the Japan aboard USS Missouri.

Mitsubishi G4M

In the days before the surrendering, some spokesmen of the Empire met american headquarter, flying an all white G4M with green crosses.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Far left engine seen from the rear.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Vought F4U Corsair

Same shot in Episode One of Crusade in the Pacific: America at War.

Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk

Under the crane, on the stern of the USS Missouri.

Episode Four

1981. American hostages released by Iran.

McDonnell Douglas C-9A Nightingale

Two aircraft were used to bring back the staff of the embassy.

Unidentified Aircraft

As former president Jimmy Carter jumps down from the roof of a car, we guess an unidentified commuter.

Boeing VC-137C

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Sikorsky VH-3D

Boeing C-137B Stratoliner

Episode Five

1961. Gagarin, first man in space.

Convair F-102 Delta Dagger

Ilyushin Il-18V

Yuri Gagarin's arrival at Moscow aboard Ilyushin Il-18V CCCP-75711 (c/n 189001802). The soviet film is in color (same shot in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft), the B&W images are from western reporters.

Episode Six

1918. Celebrations of the Armistice.

Aircrafts and others german weapons set out in the courtyard of the Invalides (Paris).

Albatros C.VII

DFW C.V

Caudron GIV & SPAD S.VII

The tent houses the Spad VII (reg. S254), one of personal mount of the french air ace Georges Guynemer, fallen a year before.

SPAD S.VII & Unidentified Aircraft

Episode Seven

1977. The coronation of Emperor Bokassa.

Douglas DC-8-55

Douglas DC-8-55 of the Armée de l'Air.

Episode Eight

1945. The opening of the concentration camps in Germany.

Messerschmitt Bf 110G

Behind the head of Gal Bradley, the masts of the radar and oil cooling of a night fighter variant.

Stinson L-5 Sentinel

Ike, then Patton, incoming aboard L-5.

Stinson L-5B Sentinel

General Bradley arrival but onboard an ambulance variant.

Episode Nine

1945. Yalta Conference.

Avro 685 York I

Reg. LV633, baptised « Ascalon » and used by Winston Churchill.

Douglas VC-54C Skymaster

A Douglas C-54A-5-DO Skymaster specially transformed for F.D. Roosevelt, here at his arrival in Crimea.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Note the special squared window... and a C-47 / Li 2 in the distance.

Douglas C-54B Skymaster

Various C-54 used by the USAAF...

... and the RAF (probably C-54B (43-17126) EW999).

Episode Ten

1936. The Berlin Olympics.

Unidentified Balloon

Trials for aerial camera which was not used.

Season Four

Episode One

1940. Charlie Chaplin filming « The Great Dictator ».

Farman F.40

Epsiode Two

1944. Inside the Maquis du Vercors.

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

25 June (or 14 July) 1944 : Daylight dropping of arms over the Vercors for the French Underground. Note how low are the Flying Fortresses and their low speed (landing gear down).

Episode Three

1916. Pancho Villa dead or alive !
No aircraft.

Episode Four

1972. Richard Nixon in China.

Boeing VC-137 Air Force One

Registration 62-6000 already seen in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Ilyushin Il-18

Ilyushin Il-18 of the CAAC-Civil Aviation Administration of China.

Episode Five

1939. Last shot of the Bagne of French Guyana.
No aircraft.

Episode Six

1948. Gandhi's funeral.

Cessna 120

Avro 685 York I

Episode Seven

1940. Eva Braun is filming Hitler.
No aircraft.

Episode Eight

1960. Fidel Castro at United Nations Organization.

Bristol 175 Britannia 318

Reg. CU-T671 Bristol 175 Britannia 318 (c/n 13515) of Cubana de Aviación.

Ilyushin Il-18

Episode Nine

1941. Attack on Pearl Harbor

Episode Ten

1967. The disaster of the "Torrey Canyon"

Season Five

Episode One

1903 – Ellis Island.
No aircraft.

Episode Two

1998 – La victoire des Bleus.
No aircraft (to be confirmed).

Episode Three

1965. Abu Simbel drew out of the water.
No aircraft.

Episode Four

1963. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
No aircraft.

Episode Five

1997. Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China.

Boeing 747-4J6

China Premier Li Peng coming in from Shenzhen with this Boeing of Air China.

(in profile) President Jiang Zemin arriving at Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport with another 747 of the same airline.

Episode Six

1970. Isle of Wight Festival.
No aircraft.

Episode Seven

1972. Jane Fonda and Joan Baez in Hanoï.
No aircraft.

Episode Eight

1968. End of Prague Spring.

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