Shea Scientific Films - "The Water Cycle" (1972)

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It's not in great shape, but this seems like a full cut of one of Shea Scientific's educational films. Wish it was in better condition, but that's what film to VHS to digital transfer gets you, I guess.
Almost didn't get this one uploaded this week, and with work stuff coming up, it may be a while before I can settle down and find something else to digitize. But this is some cool progress. We have some crew names!
11-08-23 edit: Here's Chris's short thread.
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@KaySaudek 4 ай бұрын

Oh this is funny. That narrator is actually a guy named Gary Turnen, one of our gophers. He'd do the temp voiceover to help me and our editing guys get everything lined up before we'd send the footage out for the final voiceover. He'd always try to copy Stephen's accent.

@AJBurwell 4 ай бұрын

Hahaha that's great! That clears up some confusion we had.

@matthewoherren4872 4 ай бұрын

That explains it! Gotta say though, ol' Gary did a pretty solid impression. We were hypothesizing what was up and I was sure the other VA was the temp because this guy's voice was so convincing for the part despite their voice appearing so many more times.

@JacobSimkins 4 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to know the full production process of the tapes! From research, to the filming and editing, to the final voiceover and how it all comes together

@matthewoherren4872 4 ай бұрын

@@JacobSimkins yeah like what does research even imply in the context of grade school science documentaries?

@ahleenpollock1250 3 ай бұрын

Here thanks to Jeffiot! Great stuff!

@oshuhua 7 ай бұрын

Jeffiot sent me!

@8OddOtters 7 ай бұрын

Same!

@VoltaVoid 7 ай бұрын

I hadn’t heard of this water stuff before, very cool to hear about! Thank you to those old pioneers at Shea!

@KM-sy5lk 7 ай бұрын

Would definitely have watched something like this back in school - really cool

@42Oolon 7 ай бұрын

Water, something aliens would covet.

@AJBurwell 7 ай бұрын

I mean, if that UFO actually is an alien and not just a secret military project... maybe. Lots of water up here, though Lansing isn't such a great place to look.

@matthewoherren4872 7 ай бұрын

Ok doing some research on where these stock video and images are being pulled from to get maybe a better idea of where SSF might be from. First off I figured out that the dinosaur at 1:00 is from an old collection of dinosaur statues called the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in London, England.

@caustic1611 7 ай бұрын

Help, I'm having nostalgia for a video I've never seen before!

@jd0087 5 ай бұрын

They call that anemoia Nostalgia for a time or place one has never known

@8OddOtters 7 ай бұрын

I like the background music :3

@KaySaudek 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!! That means so much. I never got a chance to know what anyone outside the studio thought of my music or even the films in general.

@Notarobot1006 4 ай бұрын

Huge thanks for making closed captions for the video!

@jodfrut771 5 ай бұрын

I heard that the Shea company actually made HEC-RAS 1.0 in fortran but didn't realize the project as computers at the time were not powerful enough to put it into use. But the army bought the patent and released it later.

@jodfrut771 5 ай бұрын

HMS too.

@gobilla2124 7 ай бұрын

this is cool

@AJBurwell 7 ай бұрын

Definitely. Just sucks a bit that we don't have a nicer version.

@invadermedras 5 ай бұрын

I can't tell how intentional it is but framing evaporation as "eating" water is so ominous ??

@AJBurwell 5 ай бұрын

Heating, not eating, haha.

@Cyberraptor14 6 ай бұрын

Seems interesting so far

@christopherthemistopher 11 ай бұрын

Nice. Lotta people to look up.

@AJBurwell 11 ай бұрын

Just as long as that's all you do and don't go around bothering people, haha

@btggamer4074 6 ай бұрын

QUESTION TIME: 1.why is there a bit of pitch bend riiiight at the start when the title is on screen 0:02 - 0:04 around there 2.why does the picture of earth look like its teleporting a bit 0:21 - 0:26 3.why are there black lines only through 0:34 - 0:37 3.are those islands at 0:35 4.what is that pointy thing behind the girl at 0:55 5.background music is inconscistent with how many times chords repeat. They dont even line up and seem to cut eachother off at transition points in what chord is played 6.WHY IS THERE RESIDUE ON THE PAN 7. 2:25 his voice doubles when he says "into the atmosphere" 8.cloud patterns seem to be repeating 9.why does he say "change" like that at 2:48 10. 2:57 why is the third tree distorted like that 11. 3:16 I'm not from America/UK/Australia/any other country that speaks English natively but what is "steet" (im not sure what he says) 12.snow is edited at 3:15 13. 4:09 Writer/Director Is Ashman a seperate person 14. 4:28 WHAT IS THAT COPYRIGHT "MCML_X_X I I" AAAAAND were done EDIT: I missed a weird bar in the bottom left of the screen that stays there and doesn't move at all

@btggamer4074 6 ай бұрын

i realised that most of these are just probably all just artifacts of digitalizing and probably dont mean anything

@shortspoon7382 6 ай бұрын

"steet" is actually "sleet" which is partially frozen rain. Its basically pellets of ice that are softer than hail.

@btggamer4074 6 ай бұрын

@@shortspoon7382 thank you!

@thewitness8321 5 ай бұрын

I think the Earth moving is just the astronaut moving the camera slightly, I think the video might be called "Blue marble" but not sure on the name

@thewitness8321 5 ай бұрын

And I tried changing the contract and other lighting settings of the intro but I couldn't make our anything more then it being a sphere of slightly different blue

@trusiight3558 6 ай бұрын

can you reach any of the other names in the credit, the might have an explaination.

@AJBurwell 6 ай бұрын

Chris has looked, but hasn't found anything. No LinkedIns, no Facebooks, no Twitters, nothing. It would be a huge help, but no hits yet.

@trusiight3558 6 ай бұрын

thats odd, maybe they are using fake names ?

@AJBurwell 6 ай бұрын

@trusiight3558 I don't think so. We've found references to John Shea and Janet Tell-Ashman in newspapers, and without naming him, E. (the owner of the apartment these were found in) is also in these credits.

@matthewoherren4872 7 ай бұрын

On a more serious note, have you considered that there may be hidden messages in this video? Seems really strange that these middle school level videos were grouped up with UFO sightings. Maybe something in the weird amount of grain?

@AJBurwell 7 ай бұрын

I doubt it. There doesn't seem to be anything, and I don't know why there would be anyway. It's either a box of mostly this studio's stuff, or else the rest will just be random.

@matthewoherren4872 7 ай бұрын

@@AJBurwell Guess it might be another one of the random ones