I'll never understand why they got rid of this.

I must have taken this journey 100 times in the mid 80`s! The museum was free on Thursdays back then!

@ihategrigris

2 жыл бұрын

I lived a few blocks away and we had a seasons pass one summer. I think I was in Grade 6 maybe. My cousin and I used to go every day. Unsupervised, cause it was like that back then.

I loved this exhibit as a young lad. Went through it over and over again when we visited Victoria twenty years ago!

I remember many years ago being in a grad course at the RBCM and our profs were these two chatty old dudes with a great sense of humour. I begged them to find this footage after the "exhibit" had been cancelled. I am now happy to see this as well as to see what positive things they have done with original pieces of this bizarre piece of work. Unless you experienced the original, you cannot begin to understand the beauty and tackiness hand in hand.

God, I loved this experience and also was terrified of it growing up. It does feel like there is a lot missing, but maybe I'm misremembering Didn't he talk to some sort of god-like figure or something? And the watch was more important? Also, does anyone else remember the elevator where all the different fish would light up as you descended, based on what "sea-depth" you were at? I was so young when we used to go that I'm sorta convinced I made it up.

@danielcutler2795

3 жыл бұрын

I remember those as well. Dr Latimer talked to some kind of divine child, and at the end when he reaches out of the sphere he's holding up the watch. In the original there was a shot of the watch, but in this version they immediately cut away.

@joes973

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely remember the elevator, etc. I was telling my wife about them before I found this video this evening. I remember being terrified of "The Pressure!!" in the 90s, but always wanting to go back to see it again.

@fiddlerontheporch

2 жыл бұрын

I only visited the museum once but I have remembered this film forever. I seem to remember a part where he levitates off the table/slab thing, but that could be my memory. I vividly remember the water leaking and being so terrified of it. My mother had to lean over and whisper "he makes it out" and even then I had a terror of submarines.

@ihategrigris

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! And the submarine ride back up to the surface!

@jasonk9779

2 ай бұрын

@@ihategrigris We went to a presentation once about future plans and the Open Ocean exhibit was supposed to continue after the submarine took you down, it was actually meant to go behind the sea diorama. Apparently construction started but was never finished. I had to wonder sometimes if the construction noises you heard at one point as you got off the submarine were real or a recording :)

I saw this exhibit many times growing up, it was my favorite part of going to the museum.

One of my best childhood memories was going to this exhibit. It was amazing. It felt like going to the depths of the ocean. The submarine at the end was so cool. The elevator that brings you down through the layers of the ocean was spooky.

The Open Ocean and all the exhibits that were part of the Open Ocean in the RBCM was by far my favourite exhibit RBCM ever had. Going through the areas, in the submarine at the end etc.... I was sad when they got rid of it.

@jenniferlawton7905

3 жыл бұрын

"Just as you may be startled by a sudden BASH"

So happy this is on the internet, thank you! The impact this film had on me is immeasurable. That ending hits in the feels! We are all CONNECTED! 😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Thank you so much for posting this. It's just like I remember. RBC is, and always will be, my standard for what a museum should be.

This used to absolutely terrify me as a child... But I must have seen it a hundred times.

This has brought back memories from the DEEPEST recesses of my mind

@jenniferlawton7905

2 жыл бұрын

Almost dinner for a shark! Latimer!!! Flapjack Devil Fish! Just as you could be startled by a sudden ZASH! He’s alive, he’s alive!!! Lol.

Loved this exhibit as a kid. I think it ran for about 10 years before they removed it do to high operational costs of things breaking down all the time. Remember the BIG Elevator at the end that was shaped like the inside of a Submarine? I also remember the film being edited at some point for the attraction because it was TOO NEW AGE and caused some upset among certain groups.

@kikihardxcoremedia2937

4 жыл бұрын

I was trying to find this. I wish they still had it. Super nostalgic.

@IslandTides

4 жыл бұрын

What was too new age? I was bummed when they got rid of it too....I used to go every weekend for years. Spend a whole day in the museum as a kid and as an adult.(guess I'm a nerd)..I remember when the seasons pass was $7.oo !!! When they renovated the front entrance and got rid of the float plane hanging from the ceiling, the entry cost when WAY WAY up...$seasons pass is now almost $65.oo (went up that much right after the renovation...).....havent been much at all since then.

@powermetal26

4 жыл бұрын

@@IslandTides If you have to ask what was too new age about it, then you already know the answer.

@jasonk9779

2 ай бұрын

No, the outrage was because of the young girl and her dress being in inappropriately revealing. I remember the news talking about it.

Wicked.......used to go through this exhibit at the RBC Museum all the time as a kid. They apparently eventually had to close it down due to it breaking all the time and it being to expensive to maintain. Favorite part was watching the film, and going in the Submarine. At some point they edited out the NEW AGE sections of the film due to public complaints that it offended too many people.

This exhibit was incredibly amazing as a child! Such good memories of this museum!!!

saw this in 1996 as child - thank you so much for uploading!

This awakened memories from the depths of my mind

I have been looking for this video forever! My family and I even went to the museum to ask if they had a copy of it somewhere around and they did not! I haven't seen this full video now for about 20 years. Thank you so much for posting this gem!

Precious memories. 🥲

I never thought I'd see this again! I remember being terrified as a kid. Any way I could see a recording of the actual exhibit?

@ihategrigris

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I was terrified. The stuff of bad dreams.

I remember this, vaguely... i must've been 5. I was absolutely terrified!

@motionsick

Жыл бұрын

I moved from Victoria to South Dakota when I was almost 6. I remember this vividly!

The bald guy is Don S. Davis who played General Hammond in the television series Stargate SG-1.

@powermetal26

4 жыл бұрын

Yep well known Vancouver Actor who has been in dozens of TV Shows and films.

@erikjohnpotvin

3 жыл бұрын

freeman239 Major Briggs, aka Bobby's dad in Twin Peaks too!

There's a portion missing, where the guy talks to an older version of himself, I think.

@marguskiis7711

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe younger version not to be too close to "2001..."

@erikjohnpotvin

3 жыл бұрын

Taltharius I was also wanting to mention this, I feel like he interacts with the little girl.

@jasonk9779

3 жыл бұрын

@@erikjohnpotvin The initial version had him talking to the little girl, but then that was replaced, from what I can remember, with a film of him talking to himself after some controversy around the little girl and her outfit.

I enjoyed it, but I thought it could have been a tad better. But children definitely enjoyed it.

This is exactly what Stockton Rush experienced post mortem

Nice underwater miniature "2001 Space Odyssey"

This film re enactment definitely had me fooled into thinking the bathysphere had anything to do with victoria BC when I was younger (The dives for this thing happened in bermuda).. Would have more appreciated historical accuracy rather than cheesily shoehorning in our city but maybe the guide mentioned it at the time? hard to say, I think I was 5

The exhibit lost a huge part of the feeling created when the edited out the parts with the young girl. The divine nature of the feeling was missing. Did they have one version with an adult woman?

Not “complete” but one version.

This is exaclty why you don't drop acid before doing ground breaking research man