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clode
Trad climber
portland, or
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Feb 14, 2011 - 03:41pm PT
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I bought the VHS from Michael Chessler Books decades ago. It still plays great, although I'd love to have a digital copy.
Some of my favorite lines are:
(from way up high on the route) "Go back, it can't be done!"
"You're doing it again. You're sending dirt onto me. You need me (as a belayer)". And my all-time favorite: "Hey Lito, I'm getting ready for you to give me a belay".
The summit scene was great where they were slicing a watermelon with a granite flake. This was the reality to the dream that one of the climbers said during the climb.
That crashing noise in the dark was one of the climbers ripping a bolt and falling with all that iron (i.e. pitons & biners).
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miwuksurfer
Social climber
Mi-Wuk
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Feb 14, 2011 - 04:30pm PT
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http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=1833
You can rent it for $240 on 16mm.
I called a couple years ago about buying a copy and they didn't have any available. Maybe if everybody starts calling and emailing, they will release a dvd copy.
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Rick McLaughlin
Trad climber
Arvada Colorado
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My VHS of El Capitan is lost.
I am interested in purchasing, or renting copying and returning, yours or a copy of, El Capitan by Fred Padula. I will pay $$.
If anyone can give me advice on where to get a copy, on any format, I would be really psyched.
Thanks, RM
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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I'd suggest someone speak up concerning the copyright issues. I'd hate to see these guys not get their payments.
It's a terrific film. I only saw it once, at Pacific Film Archive BITD and I still remember several scenes.
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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pretty much the best climbing film ever. I got mine from Chessler books in the mid 90's. my climbing buddy lost it. oh well. I probably watched it 50 times tough. tried to get a dvd copy from chessler a couple years ago, but i guess they never got them in
scott
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Gene
climber
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Del Cross,
Depending on how many VHS tapes you have, you should consider going to your local Best Buy or whatever and get a converter that you hook up to your computerator. $80 or so...
g
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Gene
climber
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Del,
Good questions for which I have no ready answers.
Cheers,
g
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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I transferred my copy to DVD relatively cheaply ($60) 5 or 6 years ago, and burned a few extra copies just in case. There were a number of video reproduction companies in Sacramento able to convert the VHS to DVD format.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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This looks awesome.
I'd buy a copy too if it were available.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Did some digging and found my VHS copy! I have a VHS to DVD machine and it worked no problem. Great film, also have a copy of Bridwell/Long crossing of Borneo and a film of Jeff Lowe and Catherine Destiville on some Himalayan route filmed by Bridwell......classic stuff.
Peace
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Sonic
Trad climber
Hilly, but no rocks Folsom, California
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Pretty sure I have a digital file of this. I'll check when I get home.
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CTW
climber
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I'm definitely a fan of El Capitan. I use it to teach about existentialism and the Absurd in my high school English class. Besides being a trippy, existential metaphor, it also answers the age-old question: "how'd they get the ropes up there?" And the sleeping in mail bags and eating canned tuna with lost arrow pitons sans Ipod, laptop or cell phone...it freaks the kids out, man.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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It was an odd one, in that it was filmed in the late 1960s or so, but wasn't finally shown in Vancouver until the late 1970s. We had most of the usual mountain speakers and films when they were on tour, but for some reason it just never got here. Quite a poetic film.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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digital copies? links? must see!
man that film looks awesome!
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fsck
climber
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I've got an .avi file of it, but it is fairly poor quality.
All time favorite climbing movie. Next to Eiger Sanction, of course.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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The link to "Canyon Cinema" is important!
Fred Padula taught at the SF State cinematography dept during, at least, the '70's (cheap shot @ when I got started...climbing...and filming)
I spoke with him during a personal presentation of "El Capitan" at Wheeler Hall on the Berkeley campus (where I endured many a weary Comp Lit lecture with 10 pages due next day). I can't recall if that was before, or after, the central lecture hall got firebombed out by the SLA. After, I think.
Fred was kinda vague when I asked, from the front row during the Q&A session that used to follow these public displays, if he would be so kind as to answer my personal technocrat about that "Moonshot" sequence.
Some kinda carney smoke and mirrors looked like to me.
Anyway, before the Q&A, Fred had screened another film, and this one should still be available through Canyon Cinema on a rental basis:
According to Fred, Glen Denny was a student of his at SF State cinema classes, who'd shot, as a student project, a very nice 16 mm called: "Nayala" or, similar, title. About 15 or 20 minutes running time.
It's quite good. Gary Colliver free solos the S Buttress of Cathedral Pk, up in Tuolumne Meadows. Seems like an autumn light, at least in B&W. There are no people, nor their vehicles, in evidence as the film walks us from the Meadows up to the base and onto the stone.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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A few years ago when one of my sons was visiting, we watched this film. I expected him to be totally bored, or at least to laugh at the hippy-trippy nature of the thing. But he really liked it. Stupid kid.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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I have a copy on my laptop.
I played it a dozen times at least for other climbers while in C-4 this fall. Total classic !
I got to see it when it first came out at the Robbins shop ;)
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Sonic
Trad climber
Hilly, but no rocks Folsom, California
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Hey Roxy,
Where are you one the central coast? Im in san luis obispo. I could give it to you. There's no links to it online, I just have a copy on my comp.
-Wade
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HuecoRat
Trad climber
NJ
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Saw the film and bought a copy in 89, right after my first trip up El Cap (3D). I have always liked it. It's so well photographed that watching it totally revives the feelings of being up on the wall. The red shirt that Lito is wearing in the film was saved by someone, and was presented to him at a slide show a few years back. I saw a photo of the presentation, and the look on his face was great.
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