Sci-Fi Short Film “The Last Transmission" | DUST
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- A young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller's lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico.
"The Last Transmission" by Stephen Turselli
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More About The Last Transmission:
Based on a true story, 'The Last Transmission' tells the story a young pilot, Delta Sierra Juliet, and an aging air traffic controller, Fred, on the brink of retirement. As the pilot flies from Colorado Springs to Carlsbad, he calls to Roswell, just as the old man is about to clock out for good, inquiring about other traffic in his airspace. Tension quickly builds they both learn that what's up there isn't of this earth.
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FULL CREDITS:
Writer/Director - Stephen Turselli
Producers - Bryan P. Jones Elise Tasooji, Stephen Turselli
Co-Producer - Robert Jackson
Associate Producer - Tom Shaughnessy
Executive Producers - Bryan P. Jones, Stephen Turselli
Starring
Brendan Fehr
Dale O'Malley
Steven Michael Quezada
Samson Snell
Additional Dialogue - Jefford Herndon, Bill Chopski
Additional Voices - Tom Shaughnessy, Toby Montoya
Cessna Pilot - Richard Baker
Director of Photography - Jesse G. Heidenfeld
Camera Operator - Bryan P. Jones
Steadicam Operator/1st AC - Allen Hrynick
2nd AC - Emily Gonzales
Stills Photographer - Toby Montoya
Key Grip - Juergen Heinemann
Best Boy Grip - Kenneth Connell
Company Grip - Maurice Muhammed
Remote Head Tech - Tom Shaughnessy
Crane Operator - Jeffrey Lamm
Drone Pilot - Luke Fitch
Drone Camera Operator - Luke Davis
Strobe Effects Designer - Toby Montoya
Special Effects Technician - Kenneth Connell
Assistant Director - Jefford Herndon
Production Coordinator - Liz Pate
Key Set PA - Oscar Montez
Set PA - Andrew Chavez
Editor - Rick Chapman
Colorist - Jesse Heidenfeld
Assistant Editor/Colorist - Dane Maddock
DI Conform Editor - Rick Chapman
Post Sound Mixer - Jason Jouver
On-set Sound Mixer - David Sickles
On-set Sound Mixer - Andrejs Prokopenko
On-set Sound Mixer - Allen Hrynick
Composers - John Dieterich, Brian McOmber
Additional Music - Zack Wagner
Production Designer - Robert Jackson
Property Master - Keith Connell
Set Decorator - Claudia Azurmendi
Set Dresser - Janelle Ciaccio
Set Dresser - Chris Svoboda
Set Dresser - Jessica Lin
Costume Designer - Christine Farnand
Hairstylist/Makeup Artist- Karen Romero
SPECIAL THANKS
Bob Hudson
Moriarty Municipal Airport
Aubrey Husar
Alejandro Snodgrass
Charlie Arnold
Kung Fu Grip
Steve Litecky
Sean Mallon
Ryan Halsey
Serious Grippage and Light
Molly Burd Komlenic
Ron Weisberg
Andrew Aguilar
Joni Romero
Linda Shaughnessy
Film Trash
Philip Pickard
Philip Sapien
Gabe Sachs
Scott Steele
Ariel Rakes
Seath Foreman
uPublic
Rick Metz
Dan Dinning
Werner Hahnlein
Joe Ulibarri
Bob House
Cinemagic FX
New Mexico State Police
City of Albuquerque
Sierra Blanca Regional Airport
New Mexico Film Office
State of New Mexico
Filmed on location in (and above) beautiful Albuquerque, Ruidoso, and Moriarty, New Mexico.
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I watch a lot of shorts and enjoyed this one also. I don't know why people hate so much on these shorts. Limited budget = No CGI, no big names, no fancy editing, just a good simple story. I thought for sure the end would show the main Character waking up the nexy day, getting the paper and reading of the Roswell UFO crash as the camera pulls away showing the questioning look on his face. Fade out, End scene.. Thanks... :)
Robert Sherry the people who hate so much are usually the least creative ones themselves that's it they're expecting the world to serve them some form of greatness although they give nothing themselves
They hate because they belong to a generation of spoiled brats who don't appreciate what they have.
this was based in 1978
Robert S Steven Michael Quezada played Gomez on “Breaking Bad”.
I love them for short entertainment - being active all the time I cannot see myself spending 1.5-2 hrs watching a full movie. These are perfect for a short break. And yes this on is one of the better movies from Dust
I loved the song in the beginning. Great acting and plot. Realistic feel to this short movie. I loved this one, Michael from Roswell is going home. Keep up the great quality DUST.
Wonderful song by Brenda Lee, how deep is the ocean 👍🏻
Brenda Lee singing this version of “How Deep Is The Ocean” from "Sincerely, Brenda Lee",released February 12, 1962.
This song can be heard in the background of the 1933 film "The Life Of Jimmy Dolan", written in 1932 by Irving Berlin.
that,or Jackie Wilsons,An ocean ill Cry
If this event actually happened, then there was another disappearance exactly the same over the Bass Strait in Australia years ago when a young pilot named Valentich went missing under the same circumstances. No trace was ever found of him or the plane. His last words were, its hovering over the top of me, its not a plane.
it sounds like the same story, maybe they changed it to Roswell but it was australia, he was going to get some crawfish never got there
Amazing one! Of all the Dust shorts that I have seen, this is my personal favourite along with The Secret Number. The traffic controller's last work day shown at the control room led to an interesting and intriguing build-up to the main incident.
Slow-paced but still effective. A bit of nostalgia for my pre-teen years, poring over accounts of supposed abductions and UFO sightings from the 60s...
Did anyone notice the sudden massive burst of signal just after Valentich's signal seemed to terminate? Umm I'm not normally prone to speculate but it seemed the "burst" almost seemed like the unknown bogie well...attempted to broadcast some kind of warning? It almost seemed like there was some menace to it. Was there any tapes or anything of Valentich's transmission before his disappearance?
slow paced, first 7 minutes were wasted time...
Oh wow! Just realised, it's _Gomez_ from the fabulous *_Breaking Bad_* One of t.v.'s best actors IMHO. In the same league as the phenomenal _Edward James Olmos_ and, I see the actor from *_Roswell_* flying the Cessna.
Brendan Fehr.
This is actually based on the disappearance of Frederick Valentich which occurred when he flying over the bass strait in Australia.
cspan0 I remember reading about that. Just heartbreaking. Whatever it is is just wrong to just grab people like that.
Fred Valentich crashed in the Bass Strait and his plane was never found.
cspan0
VERY roughly based on that incident. Dramatized and made to be spooky for the UFO conspiracy nuts.
Has been solved.. And unfortunately it was immaturity not a UFO . skepticalinquirer.org/2013/11/the_valentich_disappearance_another_ufo_cold_case_solved/
Remember that well
Did anybody spot Brendan Fehr? He was the pilot flying the Cessna, talking to the Roswell Control Tower. However, this actor was also one of the three main characters of the teen sci-fi series ROSWELL - about 3 aliens who were abandoned on earth and adopted by human parents. It seems both ironic and yet a tribute to his role in ROSWELL the TV series, that he should play a pilot who gets abducted by aliens while flying over Roswell. By the way, I thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the low budget.
datathunderstorm yeah I did 🙂✌️👽 Loved the tv show Roswell
datathunderstorm Roswell was so short lived... good childhood memories of that show. Awesome they used an actor.
Was that really him? Gonna have to rewatch that; pretty cool if it is.
OH, THAT's where I've seen him before... Thanks :)
Majandra Delfino was so totally hot...lol.
This film was executed exceptionally well. I absolutely, positively love true stories like this type!!
I'm a pilot and I really liked this video! Too bad he wasn't around an ATC; then it should've shown up on radar. Unicom stations like this can only give advisories. Would like to see more films like this. Thanks for the upload!
This would be an even greater idea if they made a short on all disappearances like this. Great film and great idea. I'm gonna have to go over the 10 point marker on this one and give DUST 25 for AWESOME ! :)
The things I find most interesting about Valentich's disappearance are, 1) *All the lies...* (more on that in a bit) 2) Both he and is father were big UFO buffs. 3) His transmission was eerily similar to the Air Traffic Control scene from "Close Encounters", which had been released only one year prior. 4) Pieces of a plane, identical to the one Valentich flew, washed ashore about five years after his disappearance. The most likely scenario for what actually happened is that Valentich was playing a prank that ended up costing him his life. *Back to the lies:* Valentich told his family and his girlfriend that he was going to King Island to pick up crayfish, but there are no crayfish on King Island. He told the airport from which he rented the plane that he was going to pick up passengers, but there was no one on King Island waiting for him. And then there was the fact that the airport on King Island was uncontrolled (meaning, in order to land he would have had to call ahead to the airport to let them know he was coming, so they could turn on the landing lights for him... no such call was ever made). From all of that, it seems pretty obvious that Valentich never had any intention of landing on King Island; but then why didn't he return to Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne?
*Spacial Disorientation*
Valentich's stunt took place at night, over the Pacific ocean. In fact, it was his very first flight over a large body of water at night. Being over water at night is the most common place for pilots to suffer spacial disorientation. From Valentich's own transcript, just before he disappears, he told Air Traffic Control that he was orbiting, which was something he needed to do to give ATC something to look at on their radar... a large, somewhat stationary target to make it seem like there could be something there with him when their wasn't. As he's orbiting he probably became disoriented (he can't see the horizon line, everywhere he looks it's black). He's not concentrating on his instruments, because he's on the radio. Without noticing, he's suddenly climbing instead of flying level... this stalls his engine (hence the radio call about his engine's rough idle). As he's trying to correct what seems like a minor miscalculation, he's still on the radio trying to sell his story... he's talking about the object hovering over him instead of fully concentrating on his instruments... instead of correcting the stall, he overcorrects... now he starts fighting the ball that is his artificial horizon. There's nothing outside to help him, everywhere he looks it's solid black. The ball is all over the place, nothing he does seems to help, he tries pushing the stick and rudder in the opposite direction that the ball is spinning... but nothing works. Why can't he fix this? What's wrong with his plane? Less than two minutes after he first tells Moorabbin about his engine's rough idle, Valentich hits the surface of the water at a suicidal speed.
Five years later, pieces of a plane exactly like the one Valentich was flying washed ashore on an island 200 miles east of the one he was flying to. Authorities stated that no other plane of the specific type Valentich was flying that night has ever crashed anywhere near that area (except, of course, his... in all probability).
This is very interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome.
Good write up, but do not confuse climbing with making the motor stall. Climbing could have made the wing stall and therefore induce a spin.
Looks like you did a lot of research on the subject.
The Bonesaw Nice research, but it was not a stunt, a fisher saw Valentich plane and the UFO following him.
I really enjoyed this film! With solid production value and being beautifully shot and edited, I can see what the film makers were saying. There are some story complaints in the comments, the only minor suggestion was that the 3rd act was a little short, Other than that I felt it was paced well. Nice job Stephen!
Beautiful cinematography paying hommage to the great classics from the 70s. I didn't know this great love song. Acting was quite good. Overall a little masterpiece, go for the feature film!
Atmospheric, Enigmatic, I felt like I was a child again back in the 90s watching the original films that we're out there.9/10
How does this not have more views? Excellent creepy true story.
*+DUST*
Wow. This was perfectly paced, well presented and reminds me of the events that occurred over the _Bass Strait_ that involved a pilot _Frederick Valentich_ in October 1978. A mix of locations and narratives. Very nicely done.
That's the story this is based on. They changed the location to the US instead of Australia and made "Fred the air traffic controller as opposed to the pilot.
This was the exact same incident with Frederick Valentich... the transcript is taken almost verbatim from the Australian incident (Melbourne dispatch). Well presented - but shift thousands of miles away from the actual site.
Great story, great movie. No need for tons of cgi, well played!
I have to wonder how many times this has happened for real that we will never know about.
An inexperienced pilot becoming spatially disoriented while flying a small plane? That's what happened in the real life story this was based on. It happens from time to time. The real life pilot was flying over the Pacific Ocean, which can swallow up much larger things than a Cessna
The actor playing the pilot of the Cessna looks like the actor who played the spaceship pilot in another Dust sci-fi short called “The Stowaway.”
hearing "How deep is the ocean" was completely unexpected! that's from 1921!! wow!
listening it in 2021.... almost 100 years !!
Written in 1932. And this particular version was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1962.
Nice one. Really liked how they built the atmosphere towards the end. No need for CGI for good old story telling.
One of the best films in the entire Dust series.
I was born and raised right between Carlsbad and Roswell NM way back in the day, never saw anything suspicious that was in the air at least, however I still have this tendency to glow in the dark at times !!
randy farr 😆
Similar incident on Australia’s south coast resulted in lost aircraft. Never found. Frederick Valentich disappeared while on a 125-mile (235 km) routine cargo flight to King Island in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait in Australia on the evening of Saturday, 21 October 1978.
That's what this is based off of. Valentich's aircraft's registration was VH-DSJ. Delta Sierra Juliet.
What a great song it starts out with. Awesome.
The colour grading on this short is stunning.
Didn't see a watch. LOL
Okay - - - A quite well done UFO'er - I admit I enjoyed it. I'm not into alien UFO stuff, as I don't believe, even though as a scientist I realize the possibility of alien UFOs. Main point is the production was quality, the acting good, and kudos to all involved.
Brilliant short! Top quality.
Amazing! The creepiest stories are true ones!
When I see “based on true events,” I ask myself ... “do you have what it takes to watch this tonight?”😂
This was inspired by true events at best
Intriguing!
The movie Roswell 1994 was very good but it would be good to see a remake which could include other peripheral incidents like this the way Spielberg built up the tension in Close Encounters...
I liked the sing song the film is very melancoly. Congratuation DUST
I love all the old 60s 70s props you guys put in this vid. There was a few exceptions i caught, but not many. Good attention to detail.
Great work all round !!! 9/ 10
It may not be Leo, but it is superb acting. when one is too good, it makes it fake. this is a brutally honest short film, nothing fake about it.
It really is thought provoking, what could have happened.
The acting and presentation is exceptionally Great , wish there were more like this on the subject of the missing people over the decades what did they encounter !!!!
A beautiful song with the wonderful voice of Brenda Lee, nice short Sci-Fi film
knowing DUST, after first minute i skipped 10 minutes and i dont think that i missed anything, what i count as bad scripting. i enjoyed it, because i lost so much time watching other endless DUST stories.
Great start for a documentary!
Nice! I still stand by my belief that mainstream Hollywood needs to step aside for the filmmakers like these folks. They know what is good and not just a bunch of CG (CG has it's place, but not at the expense of plot). Great job!
hell yea mimi!
Wow! Just ran across this chanell and I absolutely love it!
I was expecting a thriller based around car parts. Imagine my surprise.
😂
There are so so mant other stories like this that should be done please.
Is anyone still using Radio like me?
analog radio?
Who wouldn't still be using a radio?
Rui Alexandre right
Are you talking about CB radios in general?
As a trucker, I believed them to be "an indispensable tool" for most of the past 30 years.
Today however... I never even turn on the one in my work truck because I have deemed it useless.
Mostly due to the fact that all I ever hear on it... is people who misuse it.
No useful information...
No ability to communicate with the other truckers around me...
Just useless chatter, or dead air/static.
Maybe it's just a Pacific Northwest thing. I haven't been out of Washington state in a few years.
@@bobinthewest8559 Not that you'd be out in it (of course), _but_ ... the thing about CBs and especially short-wave transceivers is, during a disaster, they might be the only things that work. Cell towers might be down, or spotty at best. There might be widespread power outages, and your CB could become a lifeline.
good movie. wasn't sure what it was about for most of it so I kept watching.
Beautifully filmed and edited, but pity you switched location from Australia to Roswell... It is a fascinating story.
They made it Roswell to seem more mysterious.Big deal.
Well done, enjoyed it.
thank you for this so awesome i have read this story in books
had my headphones on a little warning next time lol
Awesome short...great story.
Cessna 172 and a '65 GTO, it don't get no better.
I think a good rendition of the Frederick Valentich case would be to tell what probably happened, no UFO whatsoever, and I think it would still make a great film.
Beautifully shot
Love the opening song. I saw some old CB radios on the control tower desk. Great throwback film. Hmmm, one missing plane is one too many.
Excellent...again!
Well excecuted! That soundtrack was amazing too!
Great work.
Well done ! Very suspenseful
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The actual case on which this is evidently based - the Frederick Valentich case in Australia - had a number of features that made it even weirder than the events depicted here. Some witnesses on the ground reported seeing a small plane (apparently Valentich's) encountering a green light. The next day, a farmer on country north of, but not far from, the incident reported seeing a "ufo carrying a Cessna underneath".
It all felt completely 70s. Very well done.
"it's not an aircraft" famous last words.
Fantastic sci-fi short amazing 👏
Umm...so at 10:28 the clock shows that it's a few minutes to 9pm, then at 10:47 it shows the clock moving from 8pm? Was it just me or did anyone else catch that? lol But anyway, I looked it up, this short seems to be based on this....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich
kijanailis. Yes I've noticed the same thing and was wondering about that myself. Does anyone have any explanation for this, I mean one that makes sense within the movie?
Aliens.
That literally made me laugh out loud. :)
All to suggest the disappearance was due to alien spookiness. Time dilation and all that other relativity nonsense that is stuck in films like this. I mean the film is set in Roswell.
Swam gas reflecting Venus....etc
excellent video
Every year dozens of airplanes disappear without a trace over the continental United States. This doesn't mean there are lots of alien abductions or anything like that. It just means that there are large swathes of the United States that are basically just empty, that people fly airplanes that occasionally fail, that pilots occasionally fail to control their aircraft for whatever reason, that pilots occasionally fail to notice the mountain they're about to fly into, that pilots don't all carry personal locator beacons, that aircraft owners don't check the emergency locator beacons in their aircraft to make sure they're working, that an airplane that has crashed is damned hard to spot from the air, and so forth.
Since the airplanes that go missing are often flying under visual flight rules and, therefore, don't have to talk to air traffic control and since an awful lot of those don't file flight plans (perhaps indicating that they have no desire to talk to air traffic control) they're not noticed as missing until well after something could be done to help them, if they're noticed at all. A pilot like the fellow in the film probably would have had engine trouble and crashed in the desert miles from any hope of rescue and died of thirst three or four days later. Vertigo is also a possibility, although that would probably result in a crash that kills the pilot rather than a forced landing that he might conceivably walk away from.
If, as many people are saying, that the story is based on the story of that Australian fellow, then replace "desert" with "ocean."
(While I'm thinking about it, I memorized that "swamp gas reflecting Venus" line for my Halloween costume a few years back, but people kept asking me if I was a Blues Brother. The following year, with a Fedora instead of a Neuralyzer, I went as a Blues Brother and people kept asking me if I was a Man in Black. I just can't win.)
This is based on the transmission of an inexperienced 20yr old Australian pilot with an extremely poor competence level on his first night flight over water. He got distracted and went into what's known as a 'death spiral'. His dialogue describes exactly what you'd expect from this basic mistake almost to a tee. What isn't mentioned is they found wreckage where they expected it to be in Bass Strait. This happened in 1978 and the wannabe commercial pilot had failed his last 5 competence exams.
That last radio transmission made my hair stand on end
This was so good
Enjoyed. Well done.
Good story, great actors!! Loved it!
Excellent.
The dejavú I felt at 06:15 was from watching _Lucid Nation_ right before this 😅
Kinda fun. The dialogue is detracting if you are a pilot.They needed a pilot to go through the control tower exchanges before shooting it. The tower would have absolutely asked position, heading, souls on board, fuel on board, among other things. Still, I liked it. (Been flying actively since 1946)
Superb short... very well acted and executed!
The writer messed up one small thing on one of the text parts though, as both should have read "*were* never found." Having said, one of the best shorts I've seen in a while! Props!
...no pun intended.
I noticed some of your films don't have closed captioning, would I be able to be paid a small amount to provide that service?
This was a real event that happened to Fred V in 1978 never found him or his plane
Loved that!
Made you think briefly too!
Liked this one. very good.
What a story, next location, Dust
Another Brendan Fenr appearance. He starred in the TV series “Roswell” as one of the aliena. This was one of my favorites.
Well done! Wow!
Really well told story. Now I'm intrigued & I'm going to have to see what I can find
I liked the Brenda Lee song.
So did I.
I really didn't like it. It was overpowering and nearly made me quit watching.
Fortunately, it ended and the actual story began.
Love your videos. Went to Amazon Prime to look for Sci-Fi gave up when I got to "The Killer Shrews"! Came back to DUST!!
Ever seen "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" ?
Had me till the very end and all I could think was: Well, that was an easy ending wasn't it?
Beautiful cinematography... glacial pacing... by 10 minutes in you're about to nod off or surf elsewhere... it catches you off guard at 12:30 when the pilot reports the UFO... it gets really UFO-ish for a few minutes, and gripping. Then ends with mystery. I wonder what the old air traffic controller thought about his retirement party? :) Good short film - based on a UFO incident in South Australia in 1978. (P.S. Is there actually an airport in Roswell, NM? I'm guessing the "true story" was shifted there to make it more USA-UFO-ish!)
Very nicely done
nice sci fi film!
#bestscifishortfilm
I enjoyed. thanks for the post
I'm addicted to Dust
Great photography
Cinematography is excellent
Heard of this story before...what once was science fiction will indeed become science fact!!...
that opening song!
happy retirement
Ooooh! Chills!!!!!
BooBaaBooBaaBooBoo (X-Files theme)
Yey for movie makers knowing buggger all about atc! Apart from that, good short :o)
this short story is based on that kid that was obsessed with flying saucers. so he flies at night and became disoriented the martians he saw were planets stars and he was likely upside down so the martians he described were planets stars and objects on the ground.
Brendan Fehr! Very cool. He was in the TV show, Roswell (and Booth's brother in Bones).