My father is in this film. I knew nothing of this and was shocked when I saw him. Brought tears to my eyes

@questconcrete

4 жыл бұрын

Was he the one responsible for the crash?

@mikehagan4320

4 жыл бұрын

Was he the slacker? Haha. Seriously that would be a really neat surprise to see your Dad. Witch one is he?

@lykrzyzowski5449

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Hagan no, lol. He was the one that stayed with pilot and was the plant expert. It was a real shock to see him. He was introduced at beginning of film as Elmer Carracci, not his real name.

@50centgotshot9times

4 жыл бұрын

@@lykrzyzowski5449 that's really cool man!

@kenclaar1712

4 жыл бұрын

Are you serious

I remember when my SR 71 went down over Treasure Island. My waist gunner, Lt Magor MacGyver, and I built a 17 room hut from drift wood and palm leaves. That first night we had gluten free chicken Parmigiano and pasta that we were able to scrounge from the surf using our helmets. We used some loose odds and ends to build a particle accelerator which we used to create bio engineered fuel for the rocket sled we were designing. Turned out that the Swedish Bikini team showed up on day three for a private retreat where they were going to work out their nymphomania issues. Well two weeks later we were back at our secret base in Vegas.

@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

😂

@indigohammer5732

4 ай бұрын

I remember reading about that in the paper. It was a shocking event. I’m glad you made it through

jim kept track of days and events in the log. day 12: completed nylon fishing net. first thing tomorrow, beginning to add rec room and basement to the shelter. then building our own corner tavern out of fallen logs we found near the lake's edge, planning to stock it with homemade ale made from berries found on the tundra. that was just about the best homemade blueberry ale Jim had ever tasted.

@74KU

Жыл бұрын

Vic did pretty damn well too given he had 2/3 of FA and still managed to be pretty well off.

What a great survival film, when the rescue plane first comes into view, it almost makes you want to wave back! This film reminds me of a very good motion picture called "Island in the Sky" starring John Wayne co -starring Lloyd Nolan, James Arness, Andy Devine, Harry Carey JR. and others. In the movie their plane also strays off course with fuel running out, they had to crash land on a frozen lake in an unforgiving area of the subarctic! So, they didn't have any berries fish or native birds to eat. But they had to somehow survive! It's 109 minutes long, so you may want to make some popcorn.

Navigator Scott: Don't worry boys...the search planes will follow our flight plan and spot us in no time. Pilot John: Uh, yeah...about that...I wanted to photograph some caribou, see and.....

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

The cheery music that plays when he does make the turn and sails off is what slayed me. XD Celebrating the dude about to make a fatal mistake like that's when the credits roll and the "THE END" card shows up.

At 34:35, Vic demonstrates how to mangle your hand with a revolver by holding it near the cylinder gap.

@Wildstar40

4 жыл бұрын

Vic blew his thumb off shooting that bird. We added it to the stew when no one was looking.

@bansheemania1692

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wildstar40 😝🤣😎

@theflyingfool

Жыл бұрын

@@Wildstar40 priceless!! My sides are hurting!

I came here for the comments... was not disappointed. You guys are a hoot!

These films are more entertaining than modern films. Thanks for the upload.

@kenfox5442

3 жыл бұрын

You are exactly correct

@Saturnia2014

Жыл бұрын

These instruction videos of yesteryear actually had dialogue

these vids are gold. thanks again.

@jeremybear573

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

“Since I was the one that got them all in this mess, I decided to keep the gun for myself.” “I obviously could be trusted to make rational correct decisions when it comes to others lives” “I couldn’t risk one of these guys sneaking up behind and popping a cap off in me.”

@SAnn-rf3oz

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@MA-iv7ol

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah, it seems like they would have jettisoned the cargo once it broke loose, the C119 was designed to do air drops like a C-130.

@74KU

Жыл бұрын

@@MA-iv7ol Well they needed a reason to "crash" for the film that wouldn't inspire a lack of confidence in the gear they were using. And really Human error is kind of the whole "point" of the situation.

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

He even WASTED the precious bullet too. Talk about an "I'm the Captain...." moment. Better than the desert one though where the "Captain" forced his men to suffer and like it in the desert for 4 days before finally opening the map to realize there's a base within treking distance...and then HE was the big hero in the end who saved them. no sense of irony or anything.

Just before the rescue, Scott had build a modern 3 bedroom home, complete with kitchen, bath, stove and refer. He even grew a full garden, raised chickens and beef cattle! All lived happily ever after!

@mamadeutsch4869

2 жыл бұрын

My sides hurt from laughing!

@frydemwingz

Жыл бұрын

@Evan Hodge this is called a youtube comment. It's not meant to be taken that serious. For adult internet users.

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

XD Jim made DARN sure he was the most useful despite his broken leg. He was not going to be the casualty when they got rescued.

I was raised in Alaska. In Boy Scouts many of our leaders were retired military. They all knew how to make shelters out of parachutes. Elaborate chainsawed shelters that would hold a bunch of people and were very comfortable and warm - even in winter. I always wondered how their survival skills all assumed you soft landed a C130 full of fuel parachutes, parachute cord, bailing wire, tools, chainsaws and food. Now I know.

THAT is THE unluckiest duck in the tundra, "Of all the places I had to set up a nest!! Then the parachutes came." 🦆🥚☹️

After a week we finally noticed the sky was a weird shade of lilac...

@50centgotshot9times

4 жыл бұрын

*twilight zone music plays*

They don't mention this in the film but if you are in the arctic or an-arctic regions and you try to navigate using a compass, it will be useless or nearly impossible because the needle will be spinning in every direction because of the polarity of being directly over the north or south pole.

Two weeks after the crash, Scott had built a nuclear reactor using the bones of dead rabbits, moss, blood from a musk ox, and tin from the ration boxes. A week later, he was producing T-X models at a rate of 100 per week.

@mamadeutsch4869

2 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious!

@caledonianson927

Жыл бұрын

@@Bonepointer awwww,, salty chicken bone lighten up.

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

XD When he said "We could give the Waldorf competition" I thought the same thing, but that's what makes this video so great. Optimism maximizes the chance of survival. Unlike the others which treats being lost as a "sending their crews to their deaths, Lord of the Flies style (the Jungle and desert group ones...), this one really shows a team that actually wants to live to see another mission and isn't using thier bad situation as an excuse to act like they should've never touched grass. Homeboy made KITES. Shoot makes me want to actually go camping rather than stay home! That's what makes a good survival video.

"No animals were harmed in the making of this film." Right. In the '50's it was a different story.

Jim had put together a fockin helicopter in his spare time out of metal from the wreckage innercord a parachute and left us. Scott was able to jump on, hijack it and picked us up

"Since Scott was of little help, he was passed from man to man. He sure boosted morale!"

@Wildstar40

4 жыл бұрын

So he joined the service as Scott and when home as Scarlett.

@dougtaylor7724

4 жыл бұрын

Jim, always helpful with his ability to make things, fashioned condoms out of muskeg.

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

@@dougtaylor7724 I'm SURE he did given what the "water containment device" looks like in the mountain survival video. XD

Once it really hit me that I'd probably lose my bars and wings, I counseled and wrote up the men for hair out of regs. Additionally, I charged Jim with malingering, and for being overweight.

Army Air Force Patch ... Amazing ... I kept my dad's for quite a while. The plane was interesting as well.

People, it's a sort of survival morale boosting film. In reading the comments, some folks don't seem to realize that a camera crew just happened to be present. But of course we have the regular "why didn't they just" whatever from the ever present Internet experts.

@saschaz1

2 жыл бұрын

Was just thinking about the shooting itself. Carrying the heavy camera equipment through this terrain wasn't fun I guess. Having worked for documentaries myself it's just something that comes to mind immediately.

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

Yeah we all get it's a moral boost movie and meant to show what could be done to survive a bleak situation while also pointing out the issues that could arise. This is a fantastic film because it really shows both the good and foolish sides of human nature. It does gloss over how long they were stuck there though. Everyone's just being satiracal out of respect cause it is so well done. There are others from the era that are outright terrible...like the Jungle one where the entire crew left the pilot to die and the narrator and moral of the story is "DOn't be the pilot in this situation." when they ABANDONED him and didn't care that he died in the end. That one was genuinely awful.

Hell, if the professor on Gillian’s Island can make a telephone out of coconuts, then these guys had it made!

>>---------------------------> "Herb and Vic took some sod and built a six story hospital. Scott had been working on a hypersonic jet fighter out of fish bones and bailing wire from the wreckage."

@RickDeckardMemories

7 жыл бұрын

surearrow What these guys really needed was an inflatable sex doll. I can see them working on that anti-exposure suit with a needle and thread...

@jeremybear573

5 жыл бұрын

@@RickDeckardMemories Sounds like you have experience in inflatables!

This is way better than a TV who’s watch this in 2020?🤔

@vegasspaceprogram6623

4 жыл бұрын

Me

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

2022

By performing a little known but very effective anti mosquito 🦟 pirouette composition I was able to dissuade the insects from annoying us any further. Somewhat making up for the crew’s resentment of my stunt flying maneuvers. Did manage to get some interesting photos of tundra water formations however.

After a huge list of supplies, 17:52 : "Elmer found a whistle." Gee. Thanks, Elmer.

Good story, a lot of things in this movie have been incorporated into rescue kits used today. That mosquito juice also,makes great fire starter.

That's gotta be Gerald Moore. I noticed that they were pretty clean shaven on the sixth day when the B-17 broke up their camping trip.

Thanks for sharing these old survival videos are just as useful today.

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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If this had been the Marines the first air drop would have been a barbeque, t bones and a case of Bud.

Awesome old video enjoyed it very much!! Thanks for the post ;)

Better than any movie you can see today this is a wonderful wonderful story wonderful full story true story I love it love it love

One thing these guys had going for them was that back in that time, most boys were in Boy Scouts, or lived on farms and learned a lot of the outdoorsman skills that "modern people" no longer carry on Our lack of farms and the destruction of Boy Scouts has given way to social media and electronic games. Our military does teach some survival skills, but without the foundation - it doesn't stick as easy. It's true that GPS may have saved these guys, but I think the outdoor skills are sadly missing - even us boomers enjoy a different, more wild childhood.

@jasonm949

2 жыл бұрын

Oh...go yell at some more clouds.

@jayhenderson2683

Жыл бұрын

I was a Cub then a Scout for a short time. I tell you now that from what I remember I learned. That I too could survive this if I had a box of popsicle sticks and a bottle of white glue. This was ingrained in us. In that little basement room of the Salvation Army in the city. Frankly you learn more from KZread like this vid. But they made one big mistake. Any free time they should have 2 guys constantly searching for fire wood. Cold, wind or breeze and soaking clothes, especially boots and socks would be lethal. That was a massive oversight for a survival video.

@Mike-zw7fq

7 ай бұрын

I was taught enough in Boy Scouts to safely spend a couple of nights if delayed in the eastern woods. And to self rescue if needed. And when I left Home I would spend many nights in the outdoors while working my jobs as a young Man. I could do that because of Scouts. And when my Kids were in scouting. Me and some other parents all went out of our way to make our Children real world Rocky Mountain Survivers. Our Kids are Highly Skilled. And have continued to build those skills as young Adults. Best Wishes from Montana! M.H.

So how'd your plane go down again? Well, it didn't, really. I was trying to snap a picture of some caribou then hit some turbulence lol then all the machine parts in the back flew around or something and damaged the plane and I just kinda freaked out. I saved my camera though.

@ThommyofThenn

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@bryanmelton5538

11 ай бұрын

YOU ARE IGNORANT

@bryanmelton5538

11 ай бұрын

LOOK AT UR STUPID NAME

Very interesting vid. Found m'self cheering at the B-17.

@KillingDeadThings

2 жыл бұрын

Same lol

After several weeks, Jim noticed we were all getting lonely for female company, so he immediately got to work slicing up the life rafts and made us all blow up dolls.

@danielsoto7447

5 жыл бұрын

V lmao i lost my lunch because of you lmao

@williamsaltiel-gracianmph613

4 жыл бұрын

This is not the Ranger Battalion!

@richardmckinney4963

4 жыл бұрын

A mstk3000 quote.

@ltcavret7574

4 жыл бұрын

That's funny

@ltcavret7574

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamsaltiel-gracianmph613 rangers eat their dead...sailors are the necrophiles

dam good film,ill keep it forever,teach my grandson how live when the going gets tuff

And after a grueling 10 hours in the tundra we were spotted by search planes.

@rarler3333

Жыл бұрын

Chock a block, mate.

@krileym

Жыл бұрын

@@rarler3333 what a roast! chock-a-block /tʃɒkəˈblɒk/ adjectiveINFORMAL•BRITISH adjective: chock-a-block; adjective: chocka-block; adjective: chockablock crammed full of people or things. "the manual is chock-a-block with information"

@TANMAN9095

Жыл бұрын

@@rarler3333 Are you actually British?

Very cool! Thanks for the upload.

Most excellent! Great snare techniques and training!

One of the best survival films I've seen. Really good, thanks for posting it!

@whynottalklikeapirat

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Watch more videos maybe?

@MarioMastar

9 ай бұрын

@@whynottalklikeapirat Most modern ones are filled with a lot of ham. I never see modern survival films talk about the constant mosquito or how to identify nearly inedible plants in a foreign land. Most of them act like camping in your own back yard and foraging the trash cans of a super market is "survival training". and the military ones focus more on what it takes to survive than how to actually survive since it's more advertisement/entertainment.

That C-119 is actually an earlier C-82

That guy don't look like Telly Savalas.😂

Good advice about skinning those sea gulls. Plenty of those seagulls for eating during the food shortages. Yummers!

I live in Alaska and yes living here is really hard and the best way is still flying unless you're lucky and can use a boat!

If I ever get enough money I'm donating some lol I love these films and never hurts to have an idea how to survive.

Too bad the plane crashed in the water. They could have made a smaller plane out of the C-119 and flew out of there.

@gregtronica3569

2 жыл бұрын

like a phoenix rising from arizona

you always want to pray it's winter if you find yourself here, otherwise, it's hard to walk and the flies will eat you alive

24 hours? Come back in a week after we are done hunting, fishing and eating all of the goodies that were dropped.

Vic is one crafty bastard. Wouldn't mind being lost with him.

… and Jim, in his excitement, hopped up on his one good leg, and waved like heck with the rest of us. "That outfit sure knows how to get 'er done", Jim said, They'll drop those supplies right on top of us". When all of a sudden one of those kit bags caught up a little extra breeze in it's chute, an Wham! Jim took that kitbag drop right in the head. Guess Jim could've used a little luck dropped on him instead. ...

@buckstarchaser2376

3 жыл бұрын

As I read that, I hear the Mario death tune.

@xiro6

2 жыл бұрын

@@buckstarchaser2376 incorrect, its more a "WASTED" scenario from GTA.

Yep, every extra minute in the air puts you closer to rescue.

@DoctorShocktor

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah neat idea, but most of the armchair pilots here don’t realize how shitty the tie downs could be then, and how damaged the aircraft could be from loose cargo. You’re talking major structure damage, maybe leaking fuel lines, snapped control cables. The aircraft could be rapidly descending to a crash - you get out, you don’t ride it to the ground

Better than some Adventure Movies.

Best camping trip ever!

@buckstarchaser2376

3 жыл бұрын

Except for the one that will certainly get a court martial for getting them all downed and in such a way that rescue was delayed and tons of resources burned up in their recovery... Though, arguably, that was good practice for the search and rescue, with good pay-off. Still lost an aircraft that could have been better lost for some other bullshit reason.

Sounds fun, Camping ,Hunting and fishing with your buddies.

Day one we ate everything in the area. Day eight..... Scott was tasty. ;) All kids ought to be shown this.

...and then they mutinated and started eating each other (making this more realistic). Then came a polar bear, he was not a teamplayer either and wanted all the meat.

@warplanner8852

6 жыл бұрын

"MUTATED" -- mutinated is not a word.

@37thraven

2 жыл бұрын

@@warplanner8852 I think he was going for 'mutinied' 😂 I skimmed and read it as 'mutilated' ☠

I spend a year in Adak Alaska and loved the tundra. When you look under the tundra there is a miniature flower garden. I explored a big part and saw the huts 100k troops lived and guarded for invasion. Picture two 55gal drums top and button off and placed on high ground and 2 troops laying in them on watch during the winter. I never got cold only wet. Horizonal rain and dangerous winds. I wanted to go back if married my wife hated Hawaii so Adak was out.

I thought I was the only one who enjoy watching these old flicks. Awesome channel. *Just Subscribed*

@PeriscopeFilm

3 жыл бұрын

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Incidently, the C-82 was the aircraft used innthe 1965 vesion of "Flight of the Phoenix"

@agoodchristianpilot159

3 жыл бұрын

That was a C-119 flying boxcar

@QuinnShaw

2 жыл бұрын

Which is an amazing movie that still holds up great today. The remake is decent as well.

@WAL_DC-6B

Жыл бұрын

@@agoodchristianpilot159 The aircraft used in the original, 1965 version of the "Flight of the Phoenix" was indeed a Fairchild C-82 Packet (a predecessor of the more successful Fairchild C-119 "flying boxcar").

The aircraft is actually a Fairchild C-82 Packet, not a C-119. Description in the film at 2:00

Getting two M1A1 carbines dropped to you!

Great show

In the life raft rowing to shore, ship's tail sticking out of the water, unknown land, Looked just like planet of the apes.

I love how these survival videos always have to have one soldier who plays THE CHUMP. 😁😁😁

That was a very good video. 👍

Bit of a hint for those thatve never done grouse, no knife needed - stand on the wings, bird facing you head away, grab legs and pull slowly but firmly straight up. unless your method of harvest damaged the spine, 95% of the time the head guts etc will come out leaving the wings and breasts on the ground beside your feet.

@dakohli

2 жыл бұрын

This is a great trick. Used it on grouse.

I flew with other Air Force pilots, who flew poor performance C-119’s in the Pacific. One said, that after taking off from an island, if there was a ship 100 miles away, that he would have hit it.

These are the coolest films!

@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

"We scavenged uranium using our portable Geiger counter and made a makeshift nuclear reactor..."

@Feintgames

4 жыл бұрын

We used wire from the tail and glass spheres we blew from molten rock we found to create makeshift lightbulbs. Soon we were reading out books in comfort.

@SpanishArmadaProd

4 жыл бұрын

You joke but in a few 100 hundred years another video like this will have that exact line in it.

@TheShadowPerson.

3 жыл бұрын

@@SpanishArmadaProd Lol maybe in 100 years with a hazmat suit. I don't know who would be lurking around uranium 😂😂or how

I believe the pilot identified the plane is a C-82 followed by the C-119.

I really enjoyed this film!

Great series

I’m all but positive that the narrator is Gerald Mohr from the radio show “The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe”.

Wow this is great.

A very good film

Suddenly I have a craving for some half cooked seagull. And some lichen tea.

I’ve flown over Alaskan tundra before. Literally hundreds of miles of nothing but tundra. I’d hate to be stranded there.

Well, the ending today would be like: "And me? Well, i got us into this mess. I crashed an expensive plane, endangered my crew. So i get dishonorable discharged, charged with several felonies and my crew sued me. Guess i will never ever have a camera again, to take any picture." *ends with a sight through prison bars*

@stargo2931

Жыл бұрын

His cargo broke loose and he ditches the plane. He should of got sent to Leavenworth after rescue.

Just 2 minutes and 8 seconds in , its already just a absolutely bad asss video

They appear curiously clean shaven for all of those days out on the tundra, cleverly weaving gill nets and springing bird traps and all....must have made razors, too....

WOW WHAT A STORY VERY GOOD

This is a really great video

@PeriscopeFilm

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great video proof of my M-1942 G,I Stove. At 59:37

Scott would later develop and produce a TV show how a clever guy and his swiss army knife would solve problems.

Great old video! Found it interesting and entertaining. No big movie stars and had a speaker.

why survive when you can thrive, great video

SUPER !!!!

Flight of the Phoenix...Northern version

To me, this seems more like a Training Film, but not positive. Back in 1958 while in the USAF, i was going to Goose Bay Labrador for the Tops In Blue contest. We flew from Iceland to Newfoundland in a MATS C-54, and then boarded a C-119 for the flight to Goose, which if i recall, was about 2-2 1/2 hours. We were required to wear parachutes. We had been told that about a month before, a C-119 and lost an engine and had gone down somewhere in the Canadian Arctic...same general area where we were headed. We flew at 7000 feet, didn't need oxygen, and i think this was sometime in early April. It was a scary flight for us "ground Airmen", but glad to say both flights up and back, were uneventful. Then flew C-54 back to Keflavik.

@therealxunil2

6 жыл бұрын

PianoMan Smith ya think? Lol

@dive2663225

5 жыл бұрын

i worked up in Newfoundland for 12 years..These guys would have really been screwed if it were winter...Enjoyed the old training Movie..Saw some good stuff..also saw..Mistakes made.by today's standards

@jeremybear573

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service!

Because a saw and an axe is all you dream of in the tundra :P

@sadpanda9455

4 жыл бұрын

How the hell else are you gonna kill and cut up scott? Use a damn gill net?

C-82 Packet precurser to C-119, rare video of it...

@brrrtbacheniraq873

Жыл бұрын

Yup. I was surprised they made such a mistake in the title. Definitely a C-82.

12:59..... Now That's My Nightmares

Here in Alaska during the early summer, the mosquitos are absolutely vicious, all over everything and big.

well looks like "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" wasn't the standard yet

@hytekrednekbama4400

2 жыл бұрын

what do you think that chicken sandwich you ate earlier was made from? or that burger, your leather shoes?

Hunting birds with a pistol. That was a pretty lucky shot. At least it wasn't a snub nose. He would have had to get in the water to shoot the bird

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

Not if it was Dan Matthews from Highway Patrol.

A MINUTE after supply went out?! You waited 60 seconds of 200+ mph flight to follow your GEAR out? GENTLEMEN. What the absolute hell.

This was sweet

Mad how much effort went into just keeping the skeeters off. Little feckers.