Lifting The Blues

[ifee...@hotmail.com]

I noticed that this film is listed as scheduled for screening at the SSA convention. Does anyone know how those of us not going to the convention might be able to see it? It's got to be just about the only soaring film I haven't seen.

[Renny]

On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:17:11 PM UTC-7, ifee...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I noticed that this film is listed as scheduled for screening at the SSA convention. Does anyone know how those of us not going to the convention might be able to see it? It's got to be just about the only soaring film I haven't seen.

Can you tell me exactly what film you are talking about? Are you talking about "Cloudstreet: Soaring the American West?"

If that is the case, FYI the film is in post-production and is not available quite yet. The new trailer can be seen at:

http://www.cloudstreethd.org/

Thx - Renny

[Sarah]

My Google-fu lead me right back to this group:
http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.soaring/L27rQJgL9ac

Maybe one of the leads there would get you a copy.

[Ian Lane]

This film was produced and directed by Dave Sproxton of Aardman Animations,
who are based in Bristol, UK. It was a 1 hour film made at the 1988
Standard Class Nationals at the Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding Club,
Nympsfield. I happen to know this because I did some of the air to air
filming with a fixed camera mounted on the fuselage of my LS3a.

I'm sure you could get a copy from Aardman - they have a website with
contact details:

http://www.aardman.com/about-us/contact/

I don't think the film is available in DVD, but I have an original VHS
copy.

Hope this helps.

Ian

[Kemp]

I obtained a digital version from Aardman two years ago for use at the Reno 2012 SSA convention. I had collected a number of new and old soaring videos including "Liftin' The Blues" and rolled them into one massive video that runs 2:36.

Logistics prevented it from being shown in 2012, but the SSA allocated said movie room at this year's convention where the same collection was shown, including the Cloudstreet trailer. The movie room became kind of a "take a break" room where people could absorb soaring, esp. spouses and soaring people who were tired of talking and standing!

Terms with Aardman preclude me from distributing the instance I have.

The 2015 convention may have a movie room, but I don't know of the plans.


Kemp

[gotovkotzepkoi]

I watched the trailer to Cloudstreet. It looks impressive. Let's see
what the full version looks like. I can tell you though that if the full
version is also full of geriatric pilots with intensive care looking
drip feed tubes up their noses then you can forget about this film
having any appeal to young people. You have lost most of them right off
the bat. I will like Cloudstreet despite this but young people will look
at it and say: nope, not for me, just another sport for rich geezers.




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gotovkotzepkoi

[Dan Marotta]

Even if the movie had only young and beautiful models, they'd still be using
oxygen...


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[Soartech]

On Monday, March 3, 2014 12:28:52 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
> Even if the movie had only young and beautiful models, they'd still be using
> oxygen...

The point is understood and well taken from gotovkotzepkoi.
If young, beautiful people were shown breathing oxygen (and some quick explanation was given as to why) then the public would accept that and ignore the tubes. When they see an old geezer with a tube up his nose, they automatically think they are on oxygen because they are old!

[Dan Marotta]

Yaas, as Captain Murphy once stated, "The IQ of the world is constant and
the population is increasing." Further proof...


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