First freefall video (vidiot)?

What about free fall movies made in France in 1956 ?

18 hours ago, Papakilosp said:

What about free fall movies made in France in 1956 ?

Well, what about them? If you know something from other countries, that we don't, please share.

Were these just films taken in freefall, or of actual relative work?  (After all, the first baton passes weren't done until, what, 1956 in France, and 1958 in Canada and then the USA.)

This thread (spread out over decades) seems to have show that:
- Actual videotape in freefall (of RW etc) was definitely happening occasionally by the early 1970s, maybe even late 1960s, with very large, heavy professional equipment.
- Early consumer video equipment didn't exist until later, but was being used by the early 1980s when it was available. (Still bulky with the actual recorders on the chest)
- Film was certainly being used in the early 1960s, when RW was getting going, often with compact gun cameras, and less compact battery packs.
- Filming by a jumper during a jump was done at least as far back in WWII, based on a TV show one commenter here mentioned.
I can extend the date of film during freefall back further, to the late 1920s or early 1930s. (see my next post that I'll work on)

Basically, once a technology was out there, somebody did try to go jump with it.

Here's a pic showing film cameras that were taken up on jumps in 1928 and 1932. The earlier one is a unclear on whether it is a freefall, but the 1932 one was a high altitude jump with oxygen.  The photos are just what was in a book; there were probably others out there in different countries too in the same era of early solo freefalls.

(Source: Le Parachute, by Borge & Viasnoff, from France, 1977. Has a lot of European stuff we don't see over here in North America.)

EDIT: To translate and interpret a bit -
1928 was Heard McMillan -- presumably in England? Although the pic doesn't even show him geared up for a jump, just his camera setup.
1932 was Lola Schroeter in Germany. Jumping from 7,100 m. Says it is a 35 mm camera.... Not clear to me if that makes sense as a film camera or what. The page is about filming though (and not just photography). 

In any case, more digging into history would be needed to confirm just what is going on with these jumpers.
 

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