Mystères d'archives (TV Series)
TV series (2009 / 2011 / 2013)
aka : Verschollene Filmschätze
Starring:
Actors of the real events, depending the subject of each episode.
Based on then "news" movies, 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.
Vikers F.B.27A Vimy II
Morane-Saulnier A-I Master
Charles Nungesser and one of his private aircraft.
Breguet 14
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 Le Bourget (Paris) airport 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.
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
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 plane.
Episode Four
1910. Buffalo Bill.
No plane.
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.
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
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 plane
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. Red Khmer.
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Episode Four
1959. Tour de France.
Aérospatiale SA 316B Alouette II
Bell 47G Ranger
Eurocopter AS 355N Fennec
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.
no plane
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
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Bell 205
Bell 205 of Air America.
Bell UH-1H
This one from the US Army
Another one, this time of the VNAF.
Boeing CH-46D
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 plane.
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
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
Sikorsky VH-3D
Boeing C-137B Stratoliner
Episode Five
1961. Gagarine, first man in space.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
Ilyushin Il-18
Ceremony to celebrate the hero. The soviet film is in color, 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
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.
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See also
- Aérospatiale SA 313/315 Alouette II
- Avro York
- Bell 204/205
- Bell 212/412
- Bell 47
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Boeing C-135
- Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
- Breguet 14
- Bristol 170 Freighter
- Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
- Curtiss JN
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas DC-8
- Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2/TwinStar
- Farman F.60 Goliath
- General Dynamics/Convair SM-65 Atlas
- Grumman Lunar Module
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Ilyushin Il-62
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Lockheed Model 8 Sirius
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Mil Mi-8/17
- Mitsubishi G4M
- Mittlewerk EWM Vergeltungswaffe V-2
- Ryan Navion
- Ryan NYP
- Saturn V
- Sikorsky CH-53
- Sikorsky H-19
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
- SPAD S.VII
- Stinson L-5 Sentinel
- Tupolev Tu-114
- Vickers Vimy
- Vought F4U Corsair