History of the Helicopter | Shell Historical Film Archive
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025
- Witness the birth of vertical flight in this 1952 documentary. We delve into the 19th and 20th centuries - a time marked by diligent inventors and their pursuit of aeronautical progress. Rare old film footage, reveals the hard work of early aviation pioneers and their bold experiments and groundbreaking inventions that forever changed the way we see the sky.
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Shell’s surprising and captivating Historic Film Archive dates from 1934 and covers a rich mix of topics from technology, science and engineering to craftsmanship, motorsport and travelogue.
The Shell Film Unit, responsible for the content, was a highly celebrated part of Britain’s Documentary Movement. Key figures from that movement were involved, including: Jack Beddington, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, John Grierson, Kay Mander, Stuart Legg and Douglas Gordon.
Its films were wide reaching, often screened in cinemas and through the non-theatric film distribution circuit, which brought film to educational establishments and organisations across the UK. While many films covered technological themes related to Shell’s activities, others were entirely unrelated and served purely to educate the general public.
As Shell innovated in technologies that would provide oil and gas products for the world, the Shell Film Unit also innovated in the technological advancement of film, incorporating graphics and different forms of animation as early as the 1930s.
During WW2 the Shell Film Unit was co-opted into war effort, making films for the Ministry of Information’s film division. Its prowess in technological documentary suited the MoI’s need for technical training films.
While the name and the medium has changed many times over the years, the documentary tradition lives on at Shell. Its contemporary film team is part of Shell’s multi-disciplinary in-house agency, Creative Solutions. It continues making award-winning factual content that informs and educates the public, now usually released on social media platforms.
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For more information about Shell’s Historic Film Archive please contact: filmservices@shell.com
Great you posted the original version. The copy I have is a 16mm American version with the Tom Shirley narration, Shirley was a radio announcer and did a lot of work for AT&T in their films and announcer of the Bell Telephone hour. The Shell Film Library gave me a very nice film print in 1970, that's 54 years ago and is still part of my collection.
I would like to know how many beheadings there were at the beginning
All of them!😂 Be well...
Only when they jumped from happiness because the concept worked.
The French were going to retire their guillotines and just put ejector seats in the first helicopters ......
wow, nice footage
Very very talented old guy best documentary very nice
"Invasion of the Flying Banannas" featured the soundtrack from Gilligan's Island when the natives are restless.
Very interesting video about helicopter evolution! I felt the absence of the Germans helicopters, operational during WW2. I remember the small Kolibri (used at navy ships ) and the other (larger) for general transport.
Outstanding Film 🎥
Juan de la Cierva was a genius... The Germans built the Colibrí a small autogiro, very practical, still in use today...
The Flettner Colibri (if that's the one you mean) was a helicopter, not a gyro.
The first man to take off from the ground with a rotary wing (helicopter) was the French (Norman...) Paul CORNU in 1906, near LISIEUX (Normandy), Coquainvilliers, at a place called "la Goulafre"
The Denny Mumford Helicopter of Denny's Yard, Dumbarton, Scotland was a prototype helicopter flying before the First World War. It was destroyed in a storm, and development was cancelled due to the outbreak of WW I
This is an amazing documentation of the evolution of helicopter showcasing the brilliance and imagination of its inventors. In a span of 100 years, we have come so far. Thanks to those who imagined and dreamed- like da Vinci- that we can fly. 🫡🎉
Thats crazy how shell uploaded this💀
The music at the starts sounds like the Church of England hymn Holy Holy Holy as the camera shows a light house which brings to mind Trinity House. Intentional or coincidence?
First time I have seen a three rotor helicopter
Personal helicopters have finally arrived, in the form of single person drone style machines. So we eventually got there :)
I WAS BORN ON 1952.
et le colibri d'antone flatener??
wonder how many people died trying to develop the helicopter
5
They sacrificed themselves and help many thousand in air rescue, disaster and medical aid...
@Shell - The brother Wirght invented airplane with engine not helicopter.
Can you imagine the pioneers seeing a V-22 Osprey?
They already imagined it. They won't be as shocked as I am, living today in December 2024 😂😂. I revere the pioneers of anything scientific. One reason I am not MAGA, and will NEVER, EVER be!!!!
The 🌎 ❤ SHELL. The best oil company.
No report on the German UBoats using them in WW2 ???
not helicopter .. towed gyrocopters
@Shell - The real first helicopter is was invented by Romanian citizen Paul Cornu in 1907 , not Leonardo da Vinci, not Sir George Caylay, not Launoy & Bienvenu, not Ponton d'Amecourt & Forlanini, not Juan de la Cierva, not S'Ascanio or other. Russia not invented helicopter.
at 12:30 I think he got it backwards?
I think you are right that he got it wrong, however, due to gyroscopic precession,it is actually 90 deg out.
@@lowtus7 Nose tilts down in sympathy with the rotor, yes, the helicopter follows the rotor. Its not gyroscopic precession its rotor phase lag. Aerodynamic forces control the rotor and that overpowers gyroscopic forces, that's why the rotor slows down when using the cyclic to tilt the rotor.
Thanks for the clarification.
@@lowtus7 No problem, I'm glad you didn't ask to explain further because it gets much more complicated. I'm trying to understand it well enough to make a video about it. Lots of people think rotor phasing is due to gyroscopic precession, including some big RUclipsrs, it needs to be demonstrated as incorrect.
@@Ben-Dixey After your reply, I did some more reading on the topic, but I'm still confused, lol. I only have experience with model helis, with rigid rotor heads, and always thought it had something to do with gyroscopic precession, but thanks for pointing out my mistake. Happy flying
keep a calm head whilst everyone around you are losing theirs
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What Joe Biden sees on the teleprompter. ⬆️
AIRSHIP also could hover
Korean and indochina wars saw their use for medical
Evacuation
Valerie andre french aviator
Surgeon and parachutist
Piloted her flimsy machine
Into war zones!
Helicopter is made of two words
Helico
Pter
Latin
When is She’ll going to remove its old abandoned platforms in the North Sea and take responsibility for its lethal pollution legacy?
There's always one. Leave it alone mate. We're not here for that.
Found one. Al? Is that you the hypocrite?
Who the he'll is she'll ?
Those old platforms are monuments to greatness
Safe zone for caught out sailors.
Platform for pirate radio stations.