Mystères d'archives (TV Series)
TV series (2009 / 2011 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2020 / 2021)
German title : Verschollene Filmschätze
English title : Archive Mysteries
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.
Vikers F.B.27A Vimy II
Morane-Saulnier AI 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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Dewoitine D.1 Ter
Reg. F-AHAZ Dewoitine D.1 Ter c/n 111.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
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
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rockets, Missiles & Space Capsules).
Mittlewerk EWM A4 Vergeltungswaffe V-2
Grumman Lunar Module
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rockets, Missiles & Space Capsules).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
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. Registration CCCP-л5611 / SSSR-L5611, s/n 5611, currently stored in Monino museum.
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing)), 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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
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 Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
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
Curtiss P-40B Warhawk
At least seven Curtiss P-40B Warhawks are visible in this spot.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress
Boeing B-17C USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) s/n 40-2074 at Hickam Field (same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing)).
North American B-25C Mitchell
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Seen again 20 minutes later.
Consolidated PBY Catalina
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Two tails split of their Catalaina's airframe in front of another one undamaged.
Nakajima B5N
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing) (not exactly this screenshot but next scenes [takeoff, B5Ns enroute]).
Aichi D3A Val
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Douglas B-23 Dragon
Used by John Ford during the filming of a movie dedicated to testimony ... and never broadcasted.
Same footage reused in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Vought OS2U Kingfisher
On the right edge.
Unidentified Aircraft
Biplane in the foreground is probably an old Douglas BT-2 for instructional use.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Curtiss P-36 Hawk
Used by John Ford to act as a Japanese bomber.
Unidentified Aircraft
Episode Ten
1967. The disaster of the "Torrey Canyon"
Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2
From the Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy).
Gloster Javelin
From the Royal Air Force.
Bell 47 Ranger
Piasecki H-21 Banane volante
Piasecki H-21 Banane volante of the French Army (ALAT) coded ARA.
Season Five
Episode One
1903 – Ellis Island.
No aircraft.
Episode Two
1998 – La victoire des Bleus.
No aircraft.
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.
Antonov An-12
Mil Mi-4
In the background.
Tupolev Tu-134
Reg. CCCP-65619 / SSSR-65619 Tupolev Tu-134 c/n 8350401 of Aeroflot since 14th of June 1968 and eventually scrapped in 1982.
President Ludvík Svoboda arriving in Moscow, 25th of August 1968.
Episode Nine
1990. Le triomphe de Mandela aux États-Unis.
Boeing 727-247
Boeing 727-247 fleet #547, registration N913TS, c/n 20250/781 of Trump Shuttle.
Eurocopter AS350 AStar
Unidentified Helicoper
In the distance a heavy transport helicopter leading three light utility helicopters.
Gulfstream IV
Reg. N404?? Unidentified Gulfstream IV.
Episode Ten
1980. La Marche pour la survie du Cambodge.
No aircraft.
Season Six
Episode One
1944 : Les images du jour J (D-Day images).
Supermarine Spitfire
Douglas Boston Mk III
Douglas Boston Mk III OA-L RAF (Free French) Squadron 342 "Lorraine"
Barrage balloon
Douglas C-47A Skytrain
Note the load under the fuselage.
Waco CG-4A
Episode Two
1930 : Le couronnement de l’empereur d’Éthiopie (The coronation of the emperor of Ethiopia).
No aircraft.
Episode Three
1970 : Les funérailles du président Nasser (the funeral of President Nasser).
First, arrival of the foreign dignitaries at Maṭār al-Qāhirah al-Dawlyy / Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA).
Ilyushin Il-18V
Reg. 7T-VRA Ilyushin Il-18V c/n 181003402 / 034-02 of Algerian Air Force. Built in 1961 as CCCP-75764 (until December 1963). End of life in 1989 and followed by a Lockheed L-1011-500 Tristar with the same 7T-VRA registration.
Unidentified Aircraft
Nightly arrival of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin.
Mil Mi-8
Coffin first ferried to the starting point of the funeral procession by five helicopters.
Ilyushin Il-18D
Reg. CCCP-75464/SSSR-75464 Ilyushin Il-18D c/n 187010401 of Aeroflot but used for the Soviet government for VIP transport. Seen in 1969 here when President Nasser was coming back from a three weeks journey in USSR. These 'hollydays' were in fact used for medical care after a heart attack.
Episode Four
1979 : Le voyage de Jean-Paul II en Pologne (John Paul II's trip to Poland).
Boeing 727-243/Adv
Reg. I-DIRD Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane Boeing 727-243/Adv "Citta di Bergamo".
Mil Mi-8S
Two Mil Mi-8S of LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze serial 627 (whith the Pope onboard) and 631.
Landing at Auschwitz on 7 June.
Tupolev Tu-134A
Reg. SP-LHD Tupolev Tu-134A of LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze built in 1976.
Episode Five
1915 : Reportage dans l'Allemagne en guerre.
No aircraft.
Season Seven
Episode One
1959 : Nixon-Khrouchtchev at Moscou.
Boeing VC-137A-BN Stratoliner
S/n 58-6970 Boeing VC-137A-BN (commercial type 707-153 c/n 17925 bought by USAF as VIP transport).
(red arrow) With an Ilyushin Il-14 in the background.
With ...
1 : Tupolev Tu-104
2 : four Ilyushin Il-18s
3 : in front of some Tupolev Tu-104s, an Ilyushin Il-12
The place is Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport on 23rd of July 1959.
Episode Two
1929. Première expédition américaine au pôle Sud.
Ford Trimotor
Ford Trimotor airplane called the Floyd Bennett (named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions).
Arrival.
After the winter, the aircraft stored in a semi-buried hanger is cleared for reassembly for the next flight over the South Pole.
Note : nothing is said or display about the two other aircrafts : a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built in 1928 and named Stars And Stripes nor a Fokker Super Universal monoplane called the Virginia.
Unidentified Aircraft
With Admundsen after a flight done before the first Antarctic expedition.
Episode Three
1949 : Mao proclame la République populaire de Chine.
No aircraft.
Episode Four
1936 : Le président Roosevelt repart en campagne.
No aircraft.
Episode Five
1959 Départs pour la Corée du Nord.
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas
Reg. LN-MOE Reidar Viking Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System. Was scrapped in 1968.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Unidentified Japanese Aircraft
From an unidentified Japanese aircraft (the wingtip on the lower right corner, probably displaying the news channel's name).
The red circle to pinpoint a helicopter, two blades and with a shape close to the Bell 47.
Season Eight
Episode : 1938. Chamberlain cherche la paix avec Hitler
Lockheed L-10A Electra
Reg. G-AEPR with G-AFCS in the background.
Reg. G-AEPR Lockheed L-10A Electra c/n 1103 of British Airways Ltd. To BOAC (22.8.40) until she crashed at Almaza, Egypt (14 April 1944).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
(top right) Reg. G-AFCS Lockheed 10A Electra c/n 1025 (former NC14936). Crashed too at Almaza on 19 November 1943.
Reg. G-AESY Lockheed 10A Electra c/n 1102 to British Airways Ltd on 17 March 1937. Crashed into sea (15 August 1939).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Lockheed 14 Super Electra
Reg. G-AFGN 1900_G-AFGN Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra c/n 1467 British Airways Ltd 8/38 > Burnt out in forced landing Luxeuil France on 11 August 1939.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
De Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide
BFW M.20
Episode : 1921. Secours international à la famine en Russie
No aircraft.
Episode : 1970. Les funérailles de Charles de Gaulle
No aircraft.
Episode : 1945. Le Japon capitule, l'Amérique est en fête
No aircraft.
Episode : 1946. Le long procès de Tokyo
No aircraft.
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See also
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Aérospatiale SA 313/315 Alouette II
- Aichi D3A
- Antonov An-10/An-12
- Antonov An-24
- Avro York
- Barrage balloon
- Bell 204/205
- Bell 212/412
- Bell 47
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Blackburn Buccaneer
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 727
- Boeing 747
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
- Boeing C-137 Stratoliner
- Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
- Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
- Breguet 14
- Bristol 170 Freighter
- Bristol 175 Britannia
- Cessna 120/140
- Cessna A-37 Dragonfly
- Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
- Curtiss JN
- Curtiss P-36 Hawk
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk
- De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide
- De Havilland DH100 Vampire
- Dewoitine D.1
- DFW C.V
- Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Douglas B-23 Dragon
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas DC-7
- Douglas DC-8
- Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil/AStar
- Farman F.40
- Farman F.60 Goliath
- Ford Trimotor
- General Dynamics/Convair SM-65 Atlas
- Gulfstream IV
- Gloster Javelin
- Grumman Lunar Module
- Ilyushin Il-14
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Ilyushin Il-62
- Lioré et Olivier LeO 21
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Lockheed Model 8 Sirius
- Lockheed Model 10 Electra
- Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Mil Mi-4
- Mil Mi-8/17
- Mitsubishi G4M
- Mittlewerk EWM Vergeltungswaffe V-2
- Morane-Saulnier AI
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- Piasecki H-21
- Ryan Navion
- Ryan NYP
- Saturn V
- Sikorsky CH-53
- Sikorsky H-19
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
- SNCASO SO.1221 Djinn
- SPAD S.VII
- Sputnik
- Stinson L-5 Sentinel
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Tupolev Tu-104
- Tupolev Tu-114
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Vickers Vimy
- Vought F4U Corsair
- Vought OS2U Kingfisher
- Waco CG-4A
- Aeroflot
- Air America
- Air China
- Air Union
- Alitalia
- British Airways Ltd
- CAAC
- Cubana de Aviación
- Lao Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- Silver City Airways
- Trump Shuttle