Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Parachuting packages out of cargo bay door of C-119 during the Korean War; pilots
Looking out of back of C-119, soldiers almost in silhouette look out cargo door watching parachuted supply packages in distance / parachuted packages seen from plane; soldier crouches into shot / pilot and copilot checking controls from...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Fairchild C-119 Flying boxcars drop supplies via parachutes to UN troops during Korean War
MS air to air shot three Fairchild C-119 Flying boxcars flying toward camera and banking left / nine C-119s flying overhead in formation / air to air shot rear open door of C--119 with supplies and soldiers inside / shot from inside...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Three thousand paratroopers prep for practice drop behind fighting lines during Korean War
WS Parachutists putting on their jumping kits and helping each other adjust straps while standing on airfield, planes in background / MS parachutist putting on the jumping kit with help from another soldier / CU soldier helping another...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, US paratroopers flying from Japan do practice jump over South Korea
Two shots from plane of planes carrying paratroopers flying over mountainous terrain / three shots of paratroopers sitting inside plane ready to jump / shot from plane of planes carrying paratroopers in flight / two shots inside plane of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Jumpers demonstrate new type of parachute invented and developed by college engineering students
Title card: "Bail Out New Parachute For Low Leaps" / VS Demonstration of how new parachute invented by college student Mark Willing and improved with fellow students Kimball Scribner and Raymond Morders is "slipped" - opened and closed...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
French military action in the First Indo-China war, 1954
Title "Indo-China War Rages On - UN Asked to Act on Laos" superimposed over French Union troops and artillery weapon / soldiers coming ashore from boat and climbing hill through jungle / plane overhead drops parachutes with supplies /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Supplies and men parachuted into Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Title: "Indo-China - Chutists Jump to Relief of Besieged Fort" superimposed over jet in flight / French Air Force planes take off / planes in flight / bombs being dropped / CU cockpit / supplies and troops being parachuted into Dien Bien...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Supplies are parachuted to Korean battlefront
WS Smoke from distant field / WS airplane flying overhead / VS plane dropping parachutes / VS parachutes descending from sky, landing in the field / VS supplies with parachutes descending and landing in field / VS supplies with...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US-supplied F-84s for Nationalist China
Title: "Defense Speed-Up on Formosa" / Men walking on a tarmac with title: "US Trains Pilots" / United States Air Force men saluting; a color guard passes with American, British, Nationalist Chinese, and French flags / Officers on a...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Physical culturist Barnarr Macfadden celebrates his 84th birthday by making parachute jump over the Seine River in France
Title Card: "On 84th Birthday - Macfadden's Chute Jump Thrills Paris" / MS Bernarr Macfadden, Physical Culturist, talking with people in circle around him, plane in background at Orly airfield getting ready for parachute jump / CU...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
French stuntman Leo Valentin makes parachute jump from helicopter in special flying suit over Villacoublay Air Base in France
Card: "Paramount News issue no 96" / title card: "Exclusive! Flying man of Paros" / title "Spectacular stunt resembles bird in flight" superimposed over stuntman Leo Valentin flying through air in special flying suit / two shots of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Paris taxicab driver Rene Vincent breaks record by parachuting with seven successive parachutes over Toussus-le-Noble, France
Title "A record! Frenchman jumps with 7 'chutes'" superimposed over aerial shot of Rene Vincent floating down under parachute / small crowd gathered around airplane / Vincent adjusting parachutes lying on wing of plane / VS two men...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Animals aid experiment in outer space
Title Card: "Amazing Films! - Animals Aid Experiments In Outer Space" superimposed over man going up tower / MS rocket nose cone / MS cover off showing inside of nose cone / CU woman technician holding container with 2 mice inside ,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New USAF Lockheed jet interceptor F-94C "Starfire" with advanced electronics at Palmdale Airport in California and in flight
Card: "Paramount News issue no 91" / title card: "New electronic marvel for Air Force / title "Starfire - Jet warplane with a 'brain'" superimposed over shot from plane of new jet in flight / jet parked on tarmac at Palmdale Airport /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Review of 1953: French soldiers and Vietnam troops engage in warfare with Vietnamese Communists
Title: "Indo-China" superimposed over big guns being fired / CU French soldier in bushes / MS plane flying by, supplies being parachuted / Follow of case of supplies on parachute coming down to forest, rear shot of men looking on / MS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The Air Research and Development Center tests low-level ejection seats at 500 feet and from ground level at Wright Field, OH
Title Card: "Low-Level Ejection Seat Tests" superimposed over parachute and dummy floating down / Plane in flight, ejection seat leaves plane, another plane comes into picture / Following ejection seat separates from parachute and dummy,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Airplane is packed with a parachute, takes off, then floats to ground with parachute deployed
Three men including one African-American fold a parachute tightly into a bundle / a man stand holding two lines attached to the parachute on ground; he pulls them and the parachute rolls out as a cameraman records the scene / the bundle...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
C-47s drop supplies to US troops at the Western Front during World War II
VS C-47 airplanes fly in formation over the Western Front as they carry supplies to 101st Airborne Division, which is under siege in Bastogne; some fly high, some low, some approaching with smoke from explosion in background / VS...
Bridgeman Arts
Living at Thamesmead, 1973, part 12 - Entertainment at the estate fair
Clip 12 from the 1973 film Living at Thamesmead, a semi-fictional account of a couple who live in the Thamesmead estate, created by the Greater London Council to promote the estate. In this clip, a fair takes place at the estate,...
Press Association
Boris Johnson visits the 16th Air Assault Brigade in Colchester following Kabul deployment
Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets members of 16 Air Assault Brigade at the Brigade Headquarters at Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex, following their recent deployment to Afghanistan to enable the safe evacuation of British...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Paratrooper Leaps Into Romance
Shots of blimp floating through clouds / Aerial shots of paratroopers leaping out of blimp and falling and chutes opening / Shot of a soldier being fitted with a harness / Shot of a man and woman packing a parachute / Medium shot of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New Volfair Parachute Is Tested
Men holding a Volfair parachute with cameramen nearby in an open field / men carrying a test dummy attached to a parachute to a plane / pilot trying to fit the dummy in the plane / the plane taking off in to the sky / view of the plane...
Curated Video
Flightline 106d - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Synopsis
Technology has diminished the active roles for pilots. Commercial aircraft can take-off, fly and land automatically, and air forces around the world are designing drones: pilotless planes that reduce the risk of losing a pilot...
Bloomberg
Pilot Who Survived Space Crash: Parachute Opened Itself
Nov. 13 -- The lone survivor of the Virgin Galactic crash is out of the hospital and telling a harrowing story of how he was flung from the spacecraft and only saved when his parachute automatically deployed. Bloomberg's Alan Levin...