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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Mar 27, 2012 - 10:49am PT
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FANTASTIC! What a great climbing movie!
Pretty ballsy heads up stuff. I love the "belay" technique with the belayer merely standing on a ledge, not attached to the rock in any way. Talk about "the leader must not fall", eh?
Hard to believe this film was made in 1938. Good to see the running belay with the piton, and even a lead fall.
Clever funny narration, and not too much staged for the Hollywood effect. I think Tom Evans should show this movie at the bridge when people ask him how they climb El Cap.
That was no dummy at the end doing the jump. Watch the body position and especially the arms. I wasn't liking how close the canopy was to the wall before they faded out.
Funny how they poked fun at the German guy, with whom we would be at war the next year. Well some of us would, some of you others would wait another couple years.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Mar 27, 2012 - 11:00am PT
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Just looked again. That whole final scene with the girl and Herman is filmed at Stoney. (The director lived in Encino so it's not surprising). Looks like he just jumped off one of the short ledges up there onto a pad(?) and then they spliced the base jump in - probably filmed elsewhere. Really does look like a real person doing the jump to me.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Mar 27, 2012 - 11:03am PT
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i usta have a friend in box canyon too, mouse. we had fun on the big cliff behind his place up there. same dude? i'll never forget jamming a crack and almost putting my fist into a nestful of prairie falcon chicks. mama kept her polite distance, we backed off the route and climbed another crack, the babies lived into adulthood and no one had to shut the place down.
this fellow survived the manson family--got shot at once for getting too close to their property, and he also survived the "box canyon weenie roast" of about 1986 or so.
who is that blonde? a great screamer--predating the wilhelm scream by 13 years.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 27, 2012 - 03:13pm PT
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hey there say, toadgas... well, i got it to work for about one minute, :(
just after the credits and up to where the first group of guys gather...
:(
still--yep!... it was neat... looked great, as the good ol' days stuff...
will try again tonight and leave it on for a few more hours, :))
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 27, 2012 - 08:19pm PT
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Fingertip Traverse 5.3
FA: Jim Smith, Bob Britton, Author Johnson, William Rice -- September 1936
This vid is even cooler now that we can look at it and see three of the pioneers of our sport having fun making a cornball short movie that was played at thousands of movie theaters back in the late 1930's!
edit: The Fingertip Traverse at Tahquitz was my first lead and first multi pitch route back in 1971.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Mar 27, 2012 - 09:29pm PT
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So, who claims to have invented base jumping?
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Mar 27, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
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Forget the BASE jump, those folks are SPEED Demons! 7,500' in just a few minutes?
Hans, you out there? Time to rev your engine.
Something tells me he won't feel like doing the Big Apple for a while.
Ca-lass-ic!
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 27, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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"CMac's extreme catapult BASE video"
Ya, that was definately a ssszzzick vid! But...
You need a bare minimum of 225-250+ft.* from the time ya toss yer PC to allow the canopy to open. So think about it, and the force that would be required and what it would exact on the human body? Particularly in the style and hapinstance way it was done in the above vid...anything could have gonewrong. For one, there was no gurantee he could reach 200+ft.! What if he made it to only 120ft.? He would have been toast, even if he would have survived the initial shock of the catapult. Very sketchy at best. My analysis is it was staged.
I just looked at it again and that looks pretty authentic, but...?
Crazy MoFo...
edit: *That was a while back, I think the current record indoors is 130 ft. so maybe equipment/chutes have evolved so the can open faster?
Ya, I think it's fake also(for the reasons listed above). It was most likely carefully cut with him standing with what looked like one foot on the catapult/board and the next instant of the crane dropping the block. Like I said, no one could withstand that amount of force on their spine, neck, knees or body in general. And there is no gurantee the would reach an appropriate height even if they did survive the initial shock. But it is cool to watch...
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Carmel Climber
Mountain climber
Carmel California
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God, does that take me back. I learned climbing in the late 1960's. Twisted rope, pitons, you tied the rope around your waist. Not very high tech compared to today. I don't think that guy really parachuted off that rock. I think they used a small doll with a handkerchief.
Later in life Pete Smith the producer of this film had a bit of a fall himself. In 1979 at the age of 86 he bailed out the 9th floor of his hospital room.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Gots to love the line at the beginning: "Don't lets get too technical."
Wonder if the director/producer/cinematographer (with the Va Der Whatever name) was a little sketch with "the English."
JL
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PellucidWombat
Mountain climber
Berkeley, CA
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The narration of that YouTube clip cracks me up. It's just begging to be played over a modern re-filming. :-D
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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yes, sad to hear of that on this jolly thread. where did you learn of that, CC?
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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But who was the blond?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Apr 19, 2012 - 03:18pm PT
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The other bird, the Tony Bird. How's things with the chicks?
It's all coming back...the vegetable patch, the trailer, the goats.
And that straight-up-the-rock gash.
Jim's living over in Simi Valley now. I'll be housesitting for them in June if you wanna visit. Message me, please.
We don't need to think @ base-jumping, but how about some beer-sumping?
I just scoped out the Harold Lloyd clip. Thanks for the tip. At first the music had me awning. Then the rope management reminded me of my least favorite realizations: we all come to the end of our rope sooner or later. It's too bad about old Pete.
Which reminds, um, me...Is there any truth to the old rumor that Bill Dolt used a Chouinard rope to "solve his problems?" If so, was it the Fantasia pattern or the lime-green?
Can you spell "Tablloyd" this way? I can.
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ljb
climber
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Jul 21, 2012 - 06:09pm PT
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The movie stars Bob Brinton (the comic relief), LaVere Daniels, Bill Rice, Jim Smith, Howard Koster, and Art Johnson, all members of the RCS of the Southern California Chapter of the Sierra Club.
My sister and I (daughters of Bob Brinton) just discovered this movie online. Our dad had never mentioned it!
It's true that they did have to sue to get the money they had been promised, according to the records of the Sierra Club.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Jul 21, 2012 - 06:16pm PT
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be sure to include 74 years of compounded interest in that lawsuit.
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ljb
climber
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Jul 21, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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We're trying to put together a web page about Bob Brinton's climbs, so if anyone has information about them, we'd be most grateful!
laurel.brinton@gmail.com
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