Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete

Many of us remember major events of the summer of 1969: Haight-
Ashbury, Manson, Woodstock, Apollo-Moon, Chappaquiddick. But a lot
was also going on that summer in a small town in southern Texas...
Marfa!

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 US Soaring Nationals
in Marfa TX, I have put the entire movie "The Sun Ship Game" on
youtube.

Some notes about the movie on youtube:

To get under the 10 minute limit, the movie is broken into 8
parts.

The original movie had numerous musical tracks from the BeeGees. I
had to mute/remove these for youtube. Youtube has a very clever music
scanner that flagged them as copyright violations. So you will
experience silence instead of the BeeGee tracks. No major loss.

In some places, the audio and video get out of sync by a second or
so. But since most of the dialog is in the form of voiceovers, this
is not a serious problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSj_POL6u0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpksxkyOTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQU4OqqVxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenw-cueqio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae14HGvxSgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzMYIcrTMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCT5-lyw8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJmNSdA1u4

Many thanks!

On Aug 17, 9:07*am, Guy Byars wrote:
Many of us remember major events of the summer of 1969: Haight-
Ashbury, Manson, Woodstock, Apollo-Moon, Chappaquiddick. *But a lot
was also going on that summer in a small town in southern Texas...
Marfa!

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 US Soaring Nationals
in Marfa TX, I have put the entire movie "The Sun Ship Game" on
youtube.

Some notes about the movie on youtube:

* *To get under the 10 minute limit, the movie is broken into 8
parts.

* *The original movie had numerous musical tracks from the BeeGees. *I
had to mute/remove these for youtube. *Youtube has a very clever music
scanner that flagged them as copyright violations. *So you will
experience silence instead of the BeeGee tracks. *No major loss.

* *In some places, the audio and video get out of sync by a second or
so. *But since most of the dialog is in the form of voiceovers, this
is not a serious problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSj_P...?v=KzJmNSdA1u4

Nice one..

Al

'The Sun Ship Game' torrent is active right now also, I succesfully
downloaded the entire .avi file over the last 24 hours using the
following Torrent:

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/447...22.TPB.torrent

Currently converting the avi to DVD format; will post again if there
are any issues with the video.

Regards, Bernie.

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/447...22.TPB.torrent

Currently converting the avi to DVD format; will post again if there
are any issues with the video.


Hi Bernie,

I'm getting audio only on some of the half dozen or so media players
that I have on my system. No joy on any video.

Thanks for doing this!

Tony

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:22:11 -0400, TonyV
wrote:


http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/447...22.TPB.torrent

Currently converting the avi to DVD format; will post again if there
are any issues with the video.


Hi Bernie,

I'm getting audio only on some of the half dozen or so media players
that I have on my system. No joy on any video.

VLC will play it.


Bye
Andreas

I'm getting audio only on some of the half dozen or so media players
that I have on my system. No joy on any video.

VLC will play it.

Yes, it will. Thanks, Andreas!

Tony

The DVD I burnt from the converted .avi file plays perfectly, the
film is just great and the air to air scenes sensational.
I can even live with the few Bee Gees songs.....

The torrent is still active. I converted the file to DVD using the
program 'ConvertXtoDVD'.

They sure crashed a lot when out-landing.............. and landing at
the field!

A couple of thoughts:

1) Did I see Moffat cutting the tips off of his Open Cirrus and gluing
on tip extensions? Was this a certified glider? if so, was it ok to
make field mods like that back then?

2) Found it interesting what Gleb found important to think about
during a contest..............Kids or Competition, not judging, just
making an observation..............I have no kids myself, so thinking
about nothing but competition is cool in my book.

3) Is competition really as filled with broken gliders as we saw in
the video?

4) flying near thunderstorms..............tempting, everybody probably
does it a few times until they get the crap scared out of
them............if they haven't yet, then they will!

Brad

Brad,

I think one thing the film was contrasting was that George was very
focused with good spousal support, while Gleb had a lot of domestic
issues to deal with, while going through a divorce, that ran over into
his contest flying.

Mike