https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/89140477-aac0-4339-9cab-1569173a809e Exclusive Films presents “Sky Traders,” a circa 1952 black-and-white picture that conveys the excitement of air travel and shipment of goods by air. A Pan American Airline flight lands at mark 01:30 while the film’s narrator explains how the “life” of an airport is planned in a control tower. We see scenes of air traffic controllers as planes land from around the world, but the newest challenge for airports is the cargo aircraft. “Today anything … goes by air,” we’re told at mark 02:15 as a plane taxis along a runway. A TWA crew is shown loading a “speed pack” full of sea moss to the belly of an aircraft for transportation, and the film moves to a discussion of how sea moss is gathered, beginning at mark 02:50. Cars are shown loaded onboard an aircraft at mark 04:50 and then traveling down the streets of Paris, their final destination. At mark 06:54 we see an air transportation station in Brussels, this time for mail delivered by helicopter. From Johannesburg in southern Africa to Benghazi along the Mediterranean Sea, we’re told how cargo aircraft speed delivery to desperately needed medicines (including chloromycetin) across the African continent. Cargo aircraft are also used to move live animals (mark 13:40) around the world, as such animals as tiger cubs, leopard cubs, and elephants arrive in England. An air ambulance is shown rushing medical personnel to an injured youth and then on to a hospital for treatment, as the narrator explains at mark 20:18 that sometimes “cargo” means “life.” We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMosMaUR7E Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:25:17 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/89140477-aac0-4339-9cab-1569173a809e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.