This is cave related because it mentions Carlsbad Caverns. ____________________________________________________
I found this old DVD at Half-Price Books: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5134XWV2Y1L._SS500_.jpg I had been wanting to watch it for many years, but never got around to it. The cinematography and the acting and the script were terrible. The DVD has no features other than the original movie, so it is worth less that $ 1. Below are some comments related to the movie: The cave scenes showing large formations were filmed in Carlsbad Caverns without the actors present. The cave scenes with the actors or stunt actors were apparently done at the location below: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/BronsonCave_eastportal.jpg And there was quite a bit of cave science mentioned in the story line. I presume that for the average person viewing this in 1951, that many of the concepts described in the script were not familiar to them. Some of the movie seemed like a documentary. Apparently, cavers in 1951 had really good underground walkie-talkies. I wonder if they used real cavers in the real caving scenes, or if they just used stunt actors ? >From a caver's point of view, I think the vertical rope fatality and the aftermath are worthy of discussion. "He hated my guts, yet he died saving my life." I hope the film-makers didn't damage the cave during the filming, especially since this film seems to have little value. This movie could be re-made to fix all of the flaws, if they were to avoid it looking like the "Journey to the Center of the Earth" movie and the re-makes of that. They should at least redo the Cyclotram vehicle shots. I am pretty certain that a novice group of cavers, could with $ 20,000 budget make a better version of this movie, and apparently there are several cavers qualified to do it. Several of the actors smoked a pipe during the descent into the earth, and I think they did in the cave to. I wonder if that seemed as odd then, as it does now ? Ref: http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/UnknownWorld.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Caves David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com