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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 |
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Many thanks!
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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 |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
'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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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I was only getting audio too, then downloaded this program: VLC Media Player. Now the video plays perfectly.
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Thank you for posting this
I had not seen this movie and had an interesting response to this video. I was a 14 to 17 year old crew for a pilot flying in the CA regional and national competition starting a year after this movie was made. I don't remember there being quite as much carnage. Mostly focused pilots a little on edge that howled at the moon at the end of the contest. I do remember a very memorable bikini. Not sure if it’s the same one. Hazy adolescent memory of the lovely Suzanne Moffat. These folks seemed so larger than life to me then. It is interesting to have them pop out of a stylized time machine and viewed with 2009 sensibilities. I met a 14 year old version of myself on a recent flying trip. Highly in need of a hair cut and a bath. It is reassuring to see that some things don't change. Rodger (7D) |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT), Guy Byars
wrote: 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. I have received some very interesting notes about the movie, from a close friend of the Director. My translation is a bit poor, I'm sorry. I hope you all can understand anyway. Aldo Cernezzi Some words on the film: AFAIK, The Sunship Game is the only real movie, not a documentary, dedicated to soaring competitions. It has been filmed at a great expense (about 300-400,000 USD in 1969, equivalent to at least 10 million Dollars today), privately financed without any perspective of reasonable revenues -- by the Director and producer Robert Drew, for one of its great passions, soaring. I came to know Bob Drew thanks to an italian soaring pilot, Enrico Ferorelli, who later was to become one of the great professional photographers in New York. In the 80's I usually was in NY once a month for my work. Bob, Enrico and I shared partnership in an LS3. It was Bob Drew that, after a successful competition in Rieti, asked me to organize, in order to film it, the first flight on the slope of Mt. Everest in a glider. The movie was not made because, during the tests in Bishop (California) the TV cameras mounted on a Calif A21 failed to work in the very low temperatures. The idea to make the soaring flight on the Himalayas, was later realized anyway, with good scientific results but without a movie, in 1985. I mention all this only in order to emphasize that, having known him quite well, I consider Bob an exceptional person, and his movie, which in 20 years I have probably watched and shown over 20 times, is a true masterpiece dedicated to soaring competitions. Its beauty is revealed gradually, when, through repeated viewing, one understands the untold in the conversations between the pilots. I recall in particular a confession: "…soaring pilots - a champion is speaking -we become aware that our talent, when we win a contest, is inexplicable; and we live therefore with the fear of losing it…" I suggest a visit he http://www.drewassociates.net/ to see how much and what Robert Drew, as one of the prominent figures of the "cinema verité", has filmed in its professional life. The Sunship Game is not even mentioned in his professional biography. This movie is a wonderful "gift" that this director-soaring pilot has given to the world of soaring. The loss of the original soundtrack, which included the song "Down to Earth" by the Bee Gees, reduces the aesthetic experience of the film. The Sunship Game does not offer only beautiful video clips of soaring, of which we now have many, but it's certainly a true work of art illustrating competitive soaring and its human dimension -- the choice of music, IMHO, is an inseparable, essential part, of the storytelling that Bob has created.. A few notes: 1. The Sun Ship Game is still protected by copyright. The DVD edition can't be found in commerce because the Drew Associates did not succeed to come to an agreement for the use of the music soundtrack with the owners of the Bee Gees' rights. If you happen to own a copy, you should keep it for you and show it to your friends, but, as a friend of Bob, I suggest we don't promote its copying -- it just belongs to him. 2. The plot of the narration is based on the major difference in the personalities of the two protagonists, Gleb Derujinsky, US (an advertizing director, the first one to appear in the film, on a bicycle in New York) and George Moffat, XX (a professor, who appears in a classroom teaching English literature). Gleb, an instinctive pilot, is described as "unbeatable when he's in top condition", but he's also sometimes inconsistent. Moffat, on the other hand, is a cold "analytical-numerical" pilot flying a modified Cirrus with longer wings, but we finally see that he's also "human after all" through his flying and the suffering against Wally Scott who had a new ASW-12. George will win (at least) two World Championships, Marfa 1970 and Waikerie 1974. Gleb, instead, will drive form Marfa to Mexico in order to get a divorce, always followed by Bob's movie cameras. The movie features a gallery of prominent figures of soaring. Between many others, Klaus Holighaus, Stouffs Sr., and Hal "The Judge" Lattimore, contest director. |
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