Robert Neal Marshall

On August 3, 2013 Filmmaker & Actor Robert Neal Marshall suffered a major heart attack and went into ventricular fibrillation caused by a 100% blockage of his left anterior descending artery. Paramedics shocked him in an attempt to bring back his heart and Robert flatlined. Eventually brought back by CPR, Robert was clinically dead for nearly a minute and a half. This profound experience changed his total being and perspective of life. - Crossing over and coming back – a Near Death Experience - Dealing with the after effects of a Near Death Experience. - Listening to your inner voice and letting it guide you. - Embracing life and losing fear. - Making positive choices to follow a trulyfulfilled path. - Learning to understand and let go of things we cannot change. - Living and sharing from a place of deep love and kindness.

Marshall examines early days of film making from the Kinetoscope to capturing world events. Share a personal tribute with rare color movies of the Normandy Landings and the Liberation of Paris. Robert’s grandfather, Jack H. Lieb, was one of several journalists who followed the Allied post Normandy advance across Europe. Working for the newsreel News of the Day, he shot silent color footage of the Utah Beach Landing and Liberation of Paris with a 16mm hand held camera. Lieb's work as a Newsreel Cameraman already included Charles Lindbergh’s daring flight to Paris in 1927, the Revolution in Nicaragua, the Ohio and Mississippi floods of 1937 plus two and a half years covering South, East and Central Africa in the 1930’s. This History of Newsreels travels from London, across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy, onwards into Paris on the day of Liberation, pre-invasion troops plus Ernie Pyle, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, Eisenhower and towards the end of World War II.

From a shaky start with early airline passengers riding in open air cockpits sitting on bags of mail and noisy tin tri-motor airliners that often landed in cow pastures, to the heyday of transatlantic Clippers and pressurized airliners that brought the end of an era for Ocean Liners, take a journey that explores the fascinating and sometimes humorous history of international airliners. Trace the development of commercial air service from the birth of airlines like Imperial Airways in the UK to small obscure US air mail carriers that would eventually merge into mega airlines like United, Pan American Airlines and Trans World Airlines. Take a personal flight back in time on rare restored 1950’s airliner, the Super-G Constellation to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in 2000 as part of TWA's 75th Anniversary. Meet up with a British Airways Concorde and fly around the Statue of Liberty in vintage airliner at 1,200 feet!