You guys did a great job concealing that! I'm glad you guys managed to get that up for people to view. The movie sounds vital to remembering the crew! Well done!
"Poor little fleet submarine"...LOL...you all are blessed with the most intact US WW2 submarine in the world. Great job keeping her ship shape, and keeping her spirit alive.
Thanks again. A few years ago had the honor of visiting the Cod and it was interesting and I learned so much about the life during WW II. I am from Chicago and we have the U-505. On another note. I see the USS Harder was found. God Bless that crew still on patrol.
Movie suggestion: Das Boot, but station a few people around the boat to slosh around water, pop some dry ice bombs in the water outside, and sceam ALAAAAAARM!
Such a great solution to having the modern technology onboard. I think the small space devoted to the video screen and viewing area just reinforces the reality of what the sailors onboard had to live through. Thanks for sharing.
On USS Midway CV-41, some time 73-76, we were watching a French foreign legion movie on the forward mess deck, 16mm, rollup screen on a tripod. It was pretty boring. Anyone who has watched a movie in the military knows how the audience talks to the movie. "Don't go there ya effin ignoramus" "Take it off!" and so on. It came to a scene where the fort commandant's wife or daughter was stripping in her window to district the guard so her rebel lover could sneak over the wall and open the gate. The projectionist started running it back and forth so we could admire her assets more thoroughly. Catcalls? You ain't heard catcalls like that night! He eventually let it play to the end, apologizing that it was getting too warm and would melt the film.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a favorite of mine as a kid. I knew the Seaview had ridiculous amounts of room onboard. That fact was soundly driven home when we went to the submarine museum in Connecticut and I went on board the Nautilus,which was the closest thing to the Seaview at the time.
we still have our parents original home movies, the projector ,( housed in a huge brown case ) and the screen from 1950s Only had 2 replace a few bulbs in the projector since then--the graininess sometimes is still pretty cool--
Paul, I love this, thank you so much. Admiral Lockwood certainly knew what he was doing, in many different areas and responsibilities. Admiral Dykers did a fantastic job with the "Silent Service" series, and I'm sure a lot of that is due to Admiral Lockwood's plan. On another note, ships at sea, boats in particular were always sharing things, and movies and mail were certainly high on the list of items sought.
I think this is another great example doing the best with the situation you have. A movie night sleepover with popcorn sounds great but I probably live too far away to make it.
ngl, the little cabinet was in several of the previous videos and i just accepted it as part of the original equipment. never would i've thought it was an addition by the museum team
A better stashed movie would be "The Land That Time Forgot". It would be interesting if Paul commented on which was more realistic, the sub or the dinosaurs.
If you sold tickets for an overnight experience on Cod I’d absolutely grab a rental car and fly on down the highway! I travelled from Montreal to Philadelphia for an Overnight on New Jersey (and again for drydocking… twice LOL)
Submarines are not surface ships... nobody's going to certificate or insure us for overnights ... and it's not our mission. But we're working on a sleep aboard sub program for this channel.
Excellent camouflage job on that video cabinet! Never would have guessed it hadn't been there since WW2. Hey, you could get a job in the Army doing stuff like that???
Another great video Paul. You and Ryan do such a great job keeping the Cod tour worthy. I'll look for the 55 min film on TH-cam, thanks for the heads up.
Very well done!! I really like that setup 👍👍 When I watched Under Siege in the Battleship New Jersey's IMAX theater, they only have 4 types of bourbon to choose from, I was disappointed, and my personal concierge could only get me second row tickets for the opera! 🤨😁
A real jewel to check out on WW2 sub warfare is the 1943 "Crash Dive" with Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter -- it's legit! Mad respect to the crew of the Cod for seven combat patrols! 🤙🏽
With modern technology, prehaps a projector hidden up above something on the ceiling and a drop down projector screen would give a larger viewing screen, and be easier to hide. Prehaps a modern projector onto the vintage screen, would be appropriate, as the video's yur showing are from that period. As you don't have significant shore space, this would be a good exhibit to show in an a shore based visitors center.
@@paulfarace9595 I'll be looking forward to it. I always enjoy your videos, especially when you take us beneath the deck or to the lower level spaces, where no other museum dares to tread.
Hey Paul and Cod crew! I just finished my tour of USS Pampanito yesteday! I'd have loved to visit Cod and I do plan to, but Pampanito is a 7 hour drive, instead of a 70 hour drive for me... But I'll make it there someday in the next few years! Either way, amazing ships, and I got to say, your videos make the submarine class look larger than it actually is! Are those wide angle lenses you are using? Oh my gosh it's so cramped inside!!!
If you were looking only for equipment labeled "museum quality" you were doing your visitors a big dis-service. You could have gotten a combination TV/VCR unit in the very early 90's that would have sat on a countertop and been put away in a cabinet when needed that would have easily covered the viewing distances of a compartment. By 1993-1995-ish you could have even gotten one from the school/exhibition space market that would have run on auto-repeat at end of tape.
Our staffing levels in those days were insufficient to monitor the equipment and unlike other subs, we resisted the urge to chop up and repurpose spaces. And video editing is still a problematic issue. I'm sure our visitors never felt cheated.
Another great video. You said there was no usable color footage from inside a US sub during WW2. Were did the color footage used in the US Navy Film "The Silent Service" come from?
@paulfarace9595 Paul, This was a US Navy film about the US submarine accomplishment in the Pacific. It does use some Hollywood footage showing subs being depth charged from the outside. But it was reported that the interior footage was taken during an actual attack during the war. The film is on the Peroscope Film TH-cam channel. I guess this maybe a question for the US Navy History & Heritage Command.
@@scottgrimwood8868 Unless they colorized the film later. Not much color film shot during the war until the last year or so. Film speed was the main problem. Also color film from that era faded after a few years.
Silent Service was definitely a black-and white show. In those days RCA/NBC had a monopoly on color TV and only used it on occasional "living color spectaculars". I believe Silent Service was syndicated and so would go mostly to local stations with no color equipment. Also it would match stock footage.
@@WilliamSpoehr Yes, there was a TV show with that name, I have been rewatching those episodes. Before the TV show, the US Navy put out a color film with the same name. The film is on the Periscope Film TH-cam channel.
Paul; I apologize for giving away your plans to relocate USS New Jersey, however Libby is so much better looking than you and she's got a Battleship.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
A three hour tour sounds ... rather like a famous theme song.
Nawww... even our professor disagrees!
Paul, Ryan, and Travis. The three most charismatic naval ship museum curators. Great stuff as always.
You guys did a great job concealing that! I'm glad you guys managed to get that up for people to view. The movie sounds vital to remembering the crew! Well done!
"Poor little fleet submarine"...LOL...you all are blessed with the most intact US WW2 submarine in the world. Great job keeping her ship shape, and keeping her spirit alive.
I still want big spaces!!!!
@@paulfarace9595 Just returned from Montana, there's some space out there for ya Paul.
I love the assertion that Ryan has a IMAX theatre on USS New Jersey! lol!
Thanks again. A few years ago had the honor of visiting the Cod and it was interesting and I learned so much about the life during WW II. I am from Chicago and we have the U-505.
On another note. I see the USS Harder was found. God Bless that crew still on patrol.
That's fantastic! Never would have guessed there was a TV in there. 😮😂
Thanks, Skipper Gilligan would be Proud, Seriously Thank OUR Veteran's for There Service... Stay Safe, Stay Strong...God Bless...
Movie suggestion: Das Boot, but station a few people around the boat to slosh around water, pop some dry ice bombs in the water outside, and sceam ALAAAAAARM!
BTDT
Very interesting, thank you for sharing these stories and information (Birmingham, England).
Such a great solution to having the modern technology onboard. I think the small space devoted to the video screen and viewing area just reinforces the reality of what the sailors onboard had to live through. Thanks for sharing.
Nice !
On USS Midway CV-41, some time 73-76, we were watching a French foreign legion movie on the forward mess deck, 16mm, rollup screen on a tripod. It was pretty boring. Anyone who has watched a movie in the military knows how the audience talks to the movie. "Don't go there ya effin ignoramus" "Take it off!" and so on.
It came to a scene where the fort commandant's wife or daughter was stripping in her window to district the guard so her rebel lover could sneak over the wall and open the gate. The projectionist started running it back and forth so we could admire her assets more thoroughly. Catcalls? You ain't heard catcalls like that night! He eventually let it play to the end, apologizing that it was getting too warm and would melt the film.
Hilarious 😂
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a favorite of mine as a kid. I knew the Seaview had ridiculous amounts of room onboard. That fact was soundly driven home when we went to the submarine museum in Connecticut and I went on board the Nautilus,which was the closest thing to the Seaview at the time.
Always a pleasure to watch you shows.
On Sea Robin, there was a shelf that held our RBO & 16mm projector.
we still have our parents original home movies, the projector ,( housed in a huge brown case ) and the screen from 1950s Only had 2 replace a few bulbs in the projector since then--the graininess sometimes is still pretty cool--
Paul, I love this, thank you so much. Admiral Lockwood certainly knew what he was doing, in many different areas and responsibilities. Admiral Dykers did a fantastic job with the "Silent Service" series, and I'm sure a lot of that is due to Admiral Lockwood's plan. On another note, ships at sea, boats in particular were always sharing things, and movies and mail were certainly high on the list of items sought.
I think this is another great example doing the best with the situation you have. A movie night sleepover with popcorn sounds great but I probably live too far away to make it.
Great solution for the Theatre., wait.. did you just say a "three Hour tour?""
good job of making the best of the space available....
Id love a 3 hour tour on your boat Skipper!
When I stayed on the Pampanito as a cub scout, they were playing a movie on a projector screen in the forward torpedo room.
ngl, the little cabinet was in several of the previous videos and i just accepted it as part of the original equipment. never would i've thought it was an addition by the museum team
A better stashed movie would be "The Land That Time Forgot". It would be interesting if Paul commented on which was more realistic, the sub or the dinosaurs.
Wonderful old films Paul. thank you for sharing them Sir and God bless.
Greg, New Zealand.
If you have other curators over for an overnight, how long until Down Periscope winds up running on a loop?
I love all that you do to preserve this history. Thank you!!
Absolutely and genius
If you sold tickets for an overnight experience on Cod I’d absolutely grab a rental car and fly on down the highway!
I travelled from Montreal to Philadelphia for an Overnight on New Jersey (and again for drydocking… twice LOL)
And I’ll gladly take a three hour tour!
Submarines are not surface ships... nobody's going to certificate or insure us for overnights ... and it's not our mission. But we're working on a sleep aboard sub program for this channel.
I'm surprised that the documentary "Down Periscope" isn't on rotation. Maybe Pampanito does it.
It's in our library... I'm in two scenes after all. 😅
Thanks for sharing this, I may not have fancy words but it is truly vital to keep this connection to history alive.
Excellent camouflage job on that video cabinet! Never would have guessed it hadn't been there since WW2. Hey, you could get a job in the Army doing stuff like that???
Fascinating original footage!
Great story. Thanks Paul and crew.
Nice job on the recessed 📺!😁👍👍🇺🇸
of all the towns these guys were from, Ocala makes the list!
Paul, thank you for another interesting story on the USS Cod. At 5:29 the Cod's Battle flag is so impressive.
It's a vinyl reproduction that is 130% of the original size.
@@paulfarace9595 OK, thank you for that information!
Miss reel movies on 642
Another great video Paul. You and Ryan do such a great job keeping the Cod tour worthy. I'll look for the 55 min film on TH-cam, thanks for the heads up.
Very well done!! I really like that setup 👍👍
When I watched Under Siege in the Battleship New Jersey's IMAX theater, they only have 4 types of bourbon to choose from, I was disappointed, and my personal concierge could only get me second row tickets for the opera! 🤨😁
I'd really like to come back to Cleveland and come aboard again. Last time was maybe 2006. It's been too long.
A real jewel to check out on WW2 sub warfare is the 1943 "Crash Dive" with Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter -- it's legit!
Mad respect to the crew of the Cod for seven combat patrols! 🤙🏽
Thank you Paul
I was looking at those gray doors and wondering what you had in there. I didn't recall them from my time on RONQUIL.
I enjoy your TH-cam channel. I have to ask, it must an asset having the USS Cod in fresh water in stead of USS New Jersey floating in salt water.
BBNJ is in relatively fresh water in the Delaware River. Corrosion is slowed to 25% ... it still occurs, but at a slower rate.
Yes but where the USS COD is the water 100 % freshwater
Good Job!
Thank You 🙂
During USS Cod’s WW2 service, during movie nights was there popcorn served? Available?
It could have been done...
With modern technology, prehaps a projector hidden up above something on the ceiling and a drop down projector screen would give a larger viewing screen, and be easier to hide. Prehaps a modern projector onto the vintage screen, would be appropriate, as the video's yur showing are from that period. As you don't have significant shore space, this would be a good exhibit to show in an a shore based visitors center.
Didn't they have a TV series about subs called The Silent Service?
Yes... and we have a program on it in the near future.
@@paulfarace9595 I'll be looking forward to it. I always enjoy your videos, especially when you take us beneath the deck or to the lower level spaces, where no other museum dares to tread.
Loved "The Silent Service"... You gotta take some of it with a grain of salt. I think there is 2 or 3 missing episodes.
Loved that series in 1957. Love it today.
Surprized that wasn't a disc of ''Run Silent, Run Deep.''
Very nice, thanks
Thank you, this is such a great learning experience as well as how you keep up with the tours.
Good job man.
Hey Paul and Cod crew! I just finished my tour of USS Pampanito yesteday! I'd have loved to visit Cod and I do plan to, but Pampanito is a 7 hour drive, instead of a 70 hour drive for me...
But I'll make it there someday in the next few years! Either way, amazing ships, and I got to say, your videos make the submarine class look larger than it actually is! Are those wide angle lenses you are using? Oh my gosh it's so cramped inside!!!
Cramped is relative... try this on a Type 9 Uboat 😂
If you were looking only for equipment labeled "museum quality" you were doing your visitors a big dis-service. You could have gotten a combination TV/VCR unit in the very early 90's that would have sat on a countertop and been put away in a cabinet when needed that would have easily covered the viewing distances of a compartment. By 1993-1995-ish you could have even gotten one from the school/exhibition space market that would have run on auto-repeat at end of tape.
Our staffing levels in those days were insufficient to monitor the equipment and unlike other subs, we resisted the urge to chop up and repurpose spaces. And video editing is still a problematic issue. I'm sure our visitors never felt cheated.
Could you get a modern projector and play a digital version of the last tour on the original screen?
Yes but then the room light is an issue as would be the viewing angles. The projector would be shining in their eyes.
Paul has Barbra Eden ? Beats Ryans four hours of Goose Butt !
The Battle of New Jersey Cod
Another great video. You said there was no usable color footage from inside a US sub during WW2. Were did the color footage used in the US Navy Film "The Silent Service" come from?
I'm not aware of any color footage in The Silent Service... unless it's a Hollywood movie or shot with a sun gun movie light!
@paulfarace9595 Paul, This was a US Navy film about the US submarine accomplishment in the Pacific. It does use some Hollywood footage showing subs being depth charged from the outside. But it was reported that the interior footage was taken during an actual attack during the war. The film is on the Peroscope Film TH-cam channel. I guess this maybe a question for the US Navy History & Heritage Command.
@@scottgrimwood8868 Unless they colorized the film later. Not much color film shot during the war until the last year or so. Film speed was the main problem. Also color film from that era faded after a few years.
Silent Service was definitely a black-and white show. In those days RCA/NBC had a monopoly on color TV and only used it on occasional "living color spectaculars". I believe Silent Service was syndicated and so would go mostly to local stations with no color equipment. Also it would match stock footage.
@@WilliamSpoehr Yes, there was a TV show with that name, I have been rewatching those episodes. Before the TV show, the US Navy put out a color film with the same name. The film is on the Periscope Film TH-cam channel.
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Was movies shown n WW2 subs?
Everything the surface Navy would see ... maybe submariners saw them first !
Sleep over ?? I'm all in
I can understand trying to hide a modern TV set because it looks out of place…then I see that modern plastic EXIT sign hanging there. 😂
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State law
The Battleship envy is strong. Try to hide it a little bit.
How about a link to the full film.
There is no "full film" yet. Search TH-cam for Cod7th patrol.
See our previous program on BBNJ drydocking... absolutely no envy... except for auditorium envy.
Paul; I apologize for giving away your plans to relocate USS New Jersey, however Libby is so much better looking than you and she's got a Battleship.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
I understand 😢
Why not just use a projector? A projector screen is easily hidden, collapsible and mobile.
Wth viewers standing in the way?