"BOTTOM OF THE WORLD" OPERATION DEEP FREEZE ANTARCTICA 1960s TRUE ADVENTURE TV EPISODE XD51654a

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One of the many episodes of the program "True Adventure" hosted by Bill Burrud, this particular episode "Bottom of the World" looks at Antarctica, with a special focus on various 20th Century expeditions to the South Pole. Aerial view of the Antarctic continent (1:08). Antarctica seen at night (2:05). Ernest Shackleton’s base seen (3:05). Images of food from Shackleton’s voyage preserved due to the cold (3:12). Commander Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy seen entering airplane “Josephine Ford Byrd Arctic Expedition” in 1929 (3:23). Richard E. Byrd and crew exiting aircraft (3:56). American flag being raised (3:58). Rear Admiral George Dufek seen (4:07). Military Air Transport Service C-124 making flight to Antarctica (4:37). 20-foot-thick airstrip of ice built by U.S. Navy seen (5:11). Aircraft landing on airstrip of ice (5:23). Supplies brought in by parachute to the South Pole (5:54). International Geophysical Year activities at South Pole in 1957-58. Rear Admiral David M. Tyree of “Operation Deep Freeze” seen in 1955-56 (6:42). Deep Freeze I base operations seen including moving cargo (7:30). Building with “Little Barrel Bar” written on the side (9:01). Skiers seen (9:16). Bell tower with ringing bell (9:38). Scientists working in the South Pole (10:00). Dr. Masakiyo (Henry) Morozumi of Japan, one of the first scientists to come to the polar station and the first Japanese citizen to set foot in Antarctica in 1960 (10:39). Ben Marvel, the photographer who photographed the “True Adventure at the Bottom of the World” walking around the world in four and a half seconds (11:19). Dog sled teams seen (12:02). Well-traveled roads on the South Polar ice (12:45). A seal on the ice (13:16). Groups of Adelie Penguins seen on the surface of the ice (13:23). Adelie Penguins building nests (13:56). Emperor penguins seen (14:33). The dark inside of the ice cap depicted (15:03). Frozen lake that is completely ice free (16:49). Scientists manning Antarctic outposts and logging data (18:36). Volcanic Mount Erebus emitting steam seen (19:29). The episode concludes with a look at how South Pole research can help prepare humankind for space travel -- the "world's biggest laboratory".
Operation Deep Freeze I took place in 1955-56. It was part of activities surrounding the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. IGY was a collaborative effort among forty nations to carry out worldwide earth science studies. In 1955, Task Force 43, commanded by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, was formed to provide logistical support for the expedition.Operation Deep Freeze I prepared a permanent research station and paved the way for more exhaustive research in later Deep Freeze operations. The expedition transpired over the Antarctic summer of November 1955 to April 1956, On 31 October 1956, Admiral Dufek and others successfully landed an R4D Skytrain (Douglas DC-3) aircraft at the South Pole -- the first aircraft to land at the South Pole and the first time that Americans had set foot on the South Pole. "Deep Freeze I" was followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on
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  • @theunidentified4887
    @theunidentified4887 Жыл бұрын

    I love these old videos They really need to show these in Schools.

  • @jeecee5539
    @jeecee5539 Жыл бұрын

    Everyone needs to see this history..

  • @moobrien1747

    @moobrien1747

    Жыл бұрын

    And Byrd's interview on South American tv when he got back.

  • @boldasalion6436

    @boldasalion6436

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean like actually showing the firmament?

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@moobrien1747Byrd didn't make it to this expedition. He passed away before it took place.

  • @m777howitzer4
    @m777howitzer4 Жыл бұрын

    Byrd is the word.

  • @wayneg8763

    @wayneg8763

    Жыл бұрын

    The saying "a little Birdy told me" was coined from Richard Byrd. Shows it is a fable

  • @m777howitzer4

    @m777howitzer4

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wayneg8763 I didn't know that, amazing factoid

  • @funlegomathteachathome1256

    @funlegomathteachathome1256

    6 ай бұрын

    Ba ba ba ba ba, bah.

  • @toskybeaston
    @toskybeaston Жыл бұрын

    posted 1 day ago… saw a youtube short and immediately searched it up…we know nothing of life its amazing

  • @MiracleFound
    @MiracleFound7 ай бұрын

    My father was in Antarctica in 1956-57 building the base at McMurdo sound!

  • @funlegomathteachathome1256

    @funlegomathteachathome1256

    6 ай бұрын

    Wow, cool. Did he reveal anything you want to share?

  • @MiracleFound

    @MiracleFound

    6 ай бұрын

    @funlegomathteachathome1256 that penguins poop everywhere and are noisy. They also were not allowed to leave any waste behind, but the waste in the latrines froze solid and were difficult to empty, so he used a backhoe to dig a trench and used a charge to blow the waste out so that they could shovel it into barrels to take back with them. He received a commendation for solving the problem.

  • @tnwhiskey68
    @tnwhiskey68 Жыл бұрын

    Hard to believe all the countries that have signed on to prevent private expeditions from going past the 60th parallel. Even N Korea..

  • @schemeteam2954

    @schemeteam2954

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah because they know that there's more land out there and they don't want to explore.

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@schemeteam2954How do the sun and moon move around this "more land out there"? We can literally see the sun and moon drop below the horizon of the Earth, so they would have to pass over this "more land out there" on their way around the Earth. How does that work to create a 24 day and night cycle, eclipses, etc.?

  • @user-vc7sd3xz2t
    @user-vc7sd3xz2tАй бұрын

    Neighborhood" in the forties of the twentieth century, biography of Admiral Richard E. Bird Arctic and Antarctic Research This "Living History" film focuses on the career of Admiral Richard Bird and his research expedition to the Antarctic in the late twenties to early thirties. Admiral Richard Bird was an American naval officer and explorer, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for valor. His first voyage consisted of two ships and three aircraft and the main voyage was New York City. On this trip, he and his crew conducted photographic trips and geological surveys.

  • @Alan-hb8pd
    @Alan-hb8pd Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see some content on the m24 off route mine. There's definitely a video of it somewhere, but someone only uploaded 50 seconds of it :/

  • @graceelder3745
    @graceelder3745 Жыл бұрын

    ADMIRAL BYRD KNEW THE TRUTH 💦❄️

  • @willieoliver2023

    @willieoliver2023

    Жыл бұрын

    That's why they killed him

  • @wayneg8763

    @wayneg8763

    Жыл бұрын

    @@willieoliver2023 no one killed him, he died peacefully in his sleep and autopsy report was heart failure. Now his son is a weird one, but he was suffering from lapses of memory. So his son drops him at the train to go to a memorial to Richard Byrd. He never makes it, is found emaciated, desheviled and no teeth with another hobo dead in an old building, still with his name tag too enter the memorial on his shorts. Mental illness runs deep. I believe Richard was writing a fictional adventure book on Antarctica.

  • @Acer_Maximinus

    @Acer_Maximinus

    Жыл бұрын

    Byrd was a lying hack who tried to salvage his legacy over expeditions that produced nothing.

  • @matthewjdouglas6471

    @matthewjdouglas6471

    Жыл бұрын

    He sailed for about 60'000 km and couldn't find any openings or find where he started from. He basically went around the flat earth wall. I'm guessing

  • @Acer_Maximinus

    @Acer_Maximinus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matthewjdouglas6471 “I’m guessing.” You’re a shitty guesser.

  • @tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai
    @tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai Жыл бұрын

    Well, i like the watermark, how it's trying to hide under the magnificent timecode, that even fits KZread's clock. Oh I like modern technology.

  • @PeriscopeFilm

    @PeriscopeFilm

    Жыл бұрын

    Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZread users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

  • @R32R38
    @R32R38 Жыл бұрын

    A tradition at the South Pole research station even today even today is to run 100 yards, at a temperature of -100F, wearing nothing but a smile.

  • @dingusmagee3326

    @dingusmagee3326

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah that's not true at all. They have to cover every bit of skin or it will immediately freeze and die, to include the face and eyeballs, hands, everything. And in some places the wind is constantly blowing at 150+mph. There are alot of good, short documentaries about the Antarctic on KZread, you should check them out.

  • @tnwhiskey68

    @tnwhiskey68

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dingusmagee3326 I have seen a ton of videos where people say they are in antartica and their faces aren't covered

  • @Wild1BillS

    @Wild1BillS

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tnwhiskey68 Its not always that cold. I have been out in -55 air temps and it was not as bad as you think.

  • @GT-Tezzy
    @GT-Tezzy Жыл бұрын

    But you won't do one on cointelpro

  • @moobrien1747

    @moobrien1747

    Жыл бұрын

    Fred Hampton.

  • @hankjones7829

    @hankjones7829

    Жыл бұрын

    What?!

  • @sandraisabeltorobaeza8581
    @sandraisabeltorobaeza8581 Жыл бұрын

    Este video muestra las otras tierras detrás del muro había un volcán además ☹️

  • @tnwhiskey68

    @tnwhiskey68

    Жыл бұрын

    Huh? Any video of Antarctica shows more than just a wall. Nobody I have ever seen has disputed there was land there.

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    ​​@@tnwhiskey68They pick and choose what they want to see. Their claim is that "they are hiding the ice wall and other lands beyond". But then they claim videos of the Navy's Antarctic expeditions "show the ice wall and land beyond". They can't pick one. But they also ignore parts of the videos that say that Antarctica is a continent and show it to be a literal landmass. They take parts of the videos that show an obvious ice shelf, sometimes even ones that are clearly floating in the middle of the Southern Ocean and will say "Look, they showed the ice wall!". It's sad to witness, actually.

  • @markmcarthy596
    @markmcarthy596 Жыл бұрын

    You mean it supports hardly any life Above ground level

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn Жыл бұрын

    Damn Bill Burr got that benjamin button aging going on

  • @sam-fc9ky
    @sam-fc9ky Жыл бұрын

    I think byrd as murdered

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 Жыл бұрын

    Scott's expedition was terribly organised, very amateur. They didn't even take their time to organise suitable base stations on the route to the South Pole.

  • @Curiosity-NZ

    @Curiosity-NZ

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't where you got that information from. Scott had depots spaced out along his journey. The problem they had was that they were running out of time. They were actually not far from one of the depots when the weather closed in. The main failure for them was only in their chosen mode of transport. It has been shown both in the Arctic and the Antarctic that man-hauling heavy sleighs just does not do anyone any good.

  • @derekwoods6663

    @derekwoods6663

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Curiosity-NZ You forgot to mention the 16kg (35Ib) of fossils Scott and his men collected along the way to the Pole and on the return journey to their final camp. They considered them far to valuable to jettison on the return journey, even though it probably meant the difference between life and death after weeks of travelling in minus - 37C (-35F)

  • @Curiosity-NZ

    @Curiosity-NZ

    Жыл бұрын

    @@derekwoods6663 I only mentioned the basics. If I mentioned the rest it would have been a very long reply. Plus it is not mentioned but was written by one of the search party that eventually found them that they were hauling a broken sled. That alone slowed them as did the weather.

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn Жыл бұрын

    3:31 love that "nature is something to be dominated and destroyed" mentality. If only we knew what that line of thought would cause after a few decades

  • @tnwhiskey68

    @tnwhiskey68

    Жыл бұрын

    What has it caused?

  • @ThommyofThenn

    @ThommyofThenn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tnwhiskey68 with a name like "TN whiskey" i doubt you'll understand but ever heard of a little something called climate change?

  • @boldasalion6436

    @boldasalion6436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ThommyofThenn ~ You mean climate control aka geoengineering weather modification, ohh wait the new one is now called climate intervention @ClimateViewer

  • @funlegomathteachathome1256

    @funlegomathteachathome1256

    6 ай бұрын

    These are some of his comments paraphrased, conquer, against nature, we’ve won, attacked, tame, blah blah…….

  • @ThommyofThenn

    @ThommyofThenn

    6 ай бұрын

    @@funlegomathteachathome1256 I can see the post-war time period having something to do with it. It was probably the time with the most combat veterans enjoying the best economy perhaps in the nation's history. America had claimed the glory of victory im WW2 and it must have seemed like nothing could stop us. When you're feeling like that, I bet it's more likely to be gregarious and also seeing things in terms of combat against an enemy. This was a concept people could easily understand

  • @AAXSlayer09
    @AAXSlayer09 Жыл бұрын

    earth is flat..you can't go there coz there is a firmament

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    Such profound revelation from someone who apparently can't write a proper complete sentence or spell that word "because" right. Enlighten us some more, will you?

  • @AAXSlayer09

    @AAXSlayer09

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DannyTruthMagnified English isn't my primary language sir

  • @AAXSlayer09

    @AAXSlayer09

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DannyTruthMagnified you clearly have an oversized ego, thinking knowing English equates to a high IQ

  • @DannyTruthMagnified

    @DannyTruthMagnified

    4 ай бұрын

    @@AAXSlayer09 True. Neither is science or geology.

  • @AAXSlayer09

    @AAXSlayer09

    4 ай бұрын

    @@DannyTruthMagnified you are also closed minded, you can't see you were brain washed with false info in your school days, learn buddy

  • @moobrien1747
    @moobrien1747 Жыл бұрын

    They didn't bring women?

  • @toskybeaston

    @toskybeaston

    Жыл бұрын

    Just stop

  • @robertpitt8418

    @robertpitt8418

    Жыл бұрын

    No females: That is a very important question that needs to be answered.

  • @robertpitt8418

    @robertpitt8418

    Жыл бұрын

    1948, President Truman signed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act into law. The act let women serve as full, permanent members of all of the branches of the military.

  • @funlegomathteachathome1256

    @funlegomathteachathome1256

    6 ай бұрын

    Unknown. This was a military operation, if there were women soldiers in the navy and out of all those women soldiers those women were assigned to this specific operation? Then yes. I don’t think there is any list. A couple thousand anyway. It is strange. I guess that’s how the military was.