German 1940s film of Cousteau on-line

[SeaRat]

I put this in the "i Calypso" thread, but it deserves it's own thread. I just received my copy of Historical Diver, and it has a write-up on this film clip shot by a German company in the early 1940s. It also includes film shot by Cousteau of Dumas in the original Aqualung (with the square regulator). Here's what I posted o the other thread, with the link. You'll have to go down the page to the second (I think) videa clip to see it. The third one is about the use of television underwater, and is also an interesting clip.

This is sad about the Calypso. But I followed the links, and there was a separate link that commerated the life of Cousteau. It has original 35mm film footage of Cousteau and Dumas using the first version of the Aqualung in the 1940s. Take a look. I think you'll enjoy this:

www.ina.fr/actualite/dossiers/2004/Juin2004.fr.html

It's all in French, but it is the original motion pictures that were shot, and those shots were used in the very old photos (black and white) in The Silent World book.

Enjoy,

John

[Michel]

SeaRAt,
Thanks a million for posting that site with the old clips! I have been looking for the film "Par 18 metres de fond" which shows
Dumas and others with the pre-cg45 reg and the really heavy
and long tripple tanks and that clip is it! Unbelievable stuff for
1944 and to a depth of 60 metres to boot! It would be nice to
find the whole movie but I'll settle for 2min29sec any time, an
incredible historical document in it's own right.
Thanks again,
Michel A.

[duckbill]

Yes. I remember this post and the clip. If there is a way to save it to hard drive I couldn't figure it out.

[Broxton Carol]

I saw a short piece of film about cousteau during ww2 diving. Fuzzy dark film, but simply amazing the germans let him do this during war time!

[JES]

Though not an exact translation here's a link that will translate this web-page for you:

translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ina.fr%2Factualite%2Fdossiers%2F2004%2FJuin2004.fr.html&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Regretfully the movie links won't work on the tranlated page so you need to watch the movie clips on the original page.

Finally, when the movie window opens you will need to make a choice of movie viewers and your connection speed. In case you didn't know bas débit means low flow (a low speed connection) and haut débit means high flow (a high speed connection). Hope this is of some help.

[JES]

Here are the links to the individual movie clips (in Windows Media Player format):

(1) Adventures of Calypso and the Commander Cousteau - JT - TF1 - 17/04/1979 - 2min 30sec - © Ina media0.ina.fr/Urlmedias/db92de50289dd3fd33def8d4dd37f328_wm_cable.wmv

(2) A new type of diving without diving-suit is born - a report of Cousteau and Cabrières - the French current events - 18/02/1944 - 2min 29sec - © Ina media0.ina.fr/Urlmedias/6d9349aca822fe6901ea47669a316408_wm_cable.wmv

(3) The commander Cousteau and the “men frogs” of Calypso explore the funds submarine - French current events - 22/10/1953 - 1min 53sec - © Ina media0.ina.fr/Urlmedias/11bd264aa2c9ace28eb3e68d9b28db4f_wm_cable.wmv

(4) Cousteau becomes “Captain Planet” - the “World of silence”, receives the gold Palm to the Festival of Cannes - the French current events - 16/05/1956 - 30sec - © Ina media0.ina.fr/Urlmedias/660b5b0a75934242726b9f815bbead48_wm_cable.wmv

(5) Calypso and the Cousteau foundation - Television news - Antenna 2 - 07/08/1983 - 2min 30sec - © Ina media0.ina.fr/Urlmedias/91ebfea3e10c45622b718a794e31376e_wm_cable.wmv

Enjoy!

[JES]

Even though I tested the links before posting them they do not appear to work anymore.

I believe that the web-site changes the link slightly each time you connect to a video to prevent others from directly linking to these video files.

Sorry...