I love the ending of this movie. After laughing at all the crazy flying inventions, we finally see one, not really all that different than the others, actually work. Those earlier attempts weren't failures; they were tests that help narrow the range of possible successes.
One of the best documentaries ever. Shows us several things...people have always been crazy and that many people will do anything for a buck. Also shows that it's only been the last 150 years or so where so many people have been into inventing new things. Not something they seemed to do in the Middle Ages and before.
Ummm..I think that Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci might have a little problem with your comment. (Not to mention the many names lost to history such as the other ancient Greeks, the ancient Romans, the builders of the pyramids, Machu Pichu, Stonehenge and countless others.) People have been inventing since Day 1.
@@iliketowatch. Not on a scale that we didn't start seeing until the height of the Industrial Revolution in the mid Nineteenth Century. That is, until we were past the Enlightenment and well into the Age of Capitalism.
My opinion exactly. I’ve only EVER seen a low resolution VHS copy of this. Criterion has a page where you can make suggestions and I did suggest this very movie to them a few years ago.
Nothing beats the last 5 minutes of this movie. Following dozens and dozens of super-wrong, humiliating and failed attempts to fly, and then a guy effortlessly gliding at will to one of the most beautiful musical pieces ever written, to a goofy yet poignant narration.
That typist at :40. whew, even Gary Seven's typewriter on Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" wasn't so fast. Forget stenographers when the typist can type (or word process) as fast as a person can speak.
My 6th Grade science teacher Col. Dardin knew I loved this so much he made me a copy on VHS. Nowadays he would prob be fired for copywrite infringement. But then again nowadays teachers would be trying to send me home with softcore porn about how Im not really a boy if I saw a pretty dress and said something.
The early dry cleaning invention where they walk in and out of cleaning fluid looked dangerous (god knows what chemicals was in that bath) and bizarre. I’ve tried researching that to no avail if it wasn’t an actual invention someone came up with.
It isn't a real invention. They filmed people walking backwards into a normal, water filled, swimming pool and then reversed the playback to give the illusion of them walking out of the pool dry.
As mentioned in other comments, it was just reverse filmed. That should also give you a hint as to other things in the movie that may or may not have actually happened. It doesn't change the entertaining nature of the film.
@@innercityprepper In Chile they showed it on television in 1992 with Spanish subtitles, I recorded it on VHS, but over the years the tape deteriorated. I would love to have that movie... Do you have information about the director? Howard Smith
@@kurtsnyder4752 It's been 2 years since you posted the question, but if you didn't find the answer, I believe that it's the Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-François Paillard. It's on TH-cam.
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I watched the VHS of this a hundred times as a kid. Great movie, great soundtrack.
I've been looking for a non-VHS copy of the soundtrack for 30 years, and still haven't found a single song other than Pachabel's Canon in D.
This is the greatest documentary ever!!!!!
I love the ending of this movie. After laughing at all the crazy flying inventions, we finally see one, not really all that different than the others, actually work.
Those earlier attempts weren't failures; they were tests that help narrow the range of possible successes.
Man's rexaphor, for the hardacrine in life. In other words.
idk man, 50:32 looks perfect to me.
Perfectly stated
My Dad had a copy of this movie when we were kids and we absolutely loved it! Watched it all the time 😍😍
I saw this in middle school in the ‘90s & haven’t seen it since. Thanks for the memories :)
43:35 "About five years ago I was in my backyard entertaining a friend with my hands..."
One of the best documentaries ever. Shows us several things...people have always been crazy and that many people will do anything for a buck. Also shows that it's only been the last 150 years or so where so many people have been into inventing new things. Not something they seemed to do in the Middle Ages and before.
Ummm..I think that Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci might have a little problem with your comment. (Not to mention the many names lost to history such as the other ancient Greeks, the ancient Romans, the builders of the pyramids, Machu Pichu, Stonehenge and countless others.)
People have been inventing since Day 1.
@@iliketowatch. Not on a scale that we didn't start seeing until the height of the Industrial Revolution in the mid Nineteenth Century. That is, until we were past the Enlightenment and well into the Age of Capitalism.
I think this needs to be on the Criterion Collection.
It really does… for posterity’s sake…
although unfortunately, I cannot imagine this EVER getting an update. 😭
My opinion exactly. I’ve only EVER seen a low resolution VHS copy of this. Criterion has a page where you can make suggestions and I did suggest this very movie to them a few years ago.
Wonderful memories.
THIS IS SUPER !!!
Seen this many, many years ago & I still remember the Crinestein in 1914.
This movie was the best movie ever
Nothing beats the last 5 minutes of this movie. Following dozens and dozens of super-wrong, humiliating and failed attempts to fly, and then a guy effortlessly gliding at will to one of the most beautiful musical pieces ever written, to a goofy yet poignant narration.
Just here for the song It Moves Me
The final scene!
David Letterman archives brought me here :)
That typist at :40. whew, even Gary Seven's typewriter on Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" wasn't so fast. Forget stenographers when the typist can type (or word process) as fast as a person can speak.
I've never heard of this but reading the comments I had to
Tellers shooting back! Love it!
My 6th Grade science teacher Col. Dardin knew I loved this so much he made me a copy on VHS. Nowadays he would prob be fired for copywrite infringement. But then again nowadays teachers would be trying to send me home with softcore porn about how Im not really a boy if I saw a pretty dress and said something.
Had the best time watching this a Lil fly not gun lie
The song at 1:04:40 is awesome.
Eureka!
And after all that, it's as simple as that. The high aspect rogalo wing!
Ah, the days when someone could invent and not have their work stolen.
We need a source for the Sound Track, I think it's fabulous. Really catchy tunes. ANYBODY ? ?
1:14:20?
53:10 THE FIRST GHOST RIDING THE WHIP!!!!
The early dry cleaning invention where they walk in and out of cleaning fluid looked dangerous (god knows what chemicals was in that bath) and bizarre. I’ve tried researching that to no avail if it wasn’t an actual invention someone came up with.
It isn't a real invention. They filmed people walking backwards into a normal, water filled, swimming pool and then reversed the playback to give the illusion of them walking out of the pool dry.
I can confirm ericbakie9157's comment.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not showed that clip on an episode in the early 2000s, explaining it the same way.
As mentioned in other comments, it was just reverse filmed. That should also give you a hint as to other things in the movie that may or may not have actually happened. It doesn't change the entertaining nature of the film.
You know where I find this documentary with subtitles in Spanish?, sorry my english... i from chile
I would be surprised if it were available in any other language. It was not even popular in english when it was released.
@@innercityprepper In Chile they showed it on television in 1992 with Spanish subtitles, I recorded it on VHS, but over the years the tape deteriorated. I would love to have that movie... Do you have information about the director? Howard Smith
What the heck izzat he sez at the "dedication"?
And what version is that of Pach's Canon in D on the end credits?
@@kurtsnyder4752 It's been 2 years since you posted the question, but if you didn't find the answer, I believe that it's the Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-François Paillard. It's on TH-cam.
@@bleakdaze Thank you.
As goofy as it is, and as nonsensical as it was, I feel that "Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" is poetic and beautiful.