[video=youtube;GVB5dg7XX_g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB5dg7XX_g[/video]
My earliest memory as a kid was watching Alan Shepard’s flight. And I know I saw Glenn’s too, probably the one above, CBS.
The video below, a NASA movie from 1962, is said to have been shown in movie theaters. Wow, I do not think I saw that (probably too young at age 5 to go to movies). This is a good quality copy of the movie. Shows pre-launch, launch, on-orbit, and landing. With a lot of onboard movie camera footage of Glenn.
[video=youtube;9fD5IqTREGE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fD5IqTREGE[/video]
BTW - due to a (false) indicator that the landing bag had deployed, meaning the heat shield may have been loose, the flight was cut short, at 3 orbits. This is why the footage of landing shows it in the water already, as there was no aircraft carrier at that contingency landing site, only a destroyer which was not prepared with long range cameras or helicopters (so no footage of the capsule coming down on the chute). After he landed, and was taken aboard the destroyer, he was then picked up by a helicopter (winched up inside, as it could not and on deck), and taken to an aircraft carrier.