Salut,
Voici un document video de 20 minutes concernant Ron Hood en 1973,
journey - the quest for self reliance , qui pourra en interesser certain(e)s:
1ere partie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGC0pW4YNqA2nde partie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMD6Q_-zdQ&feature=related ...Avec le p'tit air de banjo qui va bien en fond sonore
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Le pitch de l'epoque:
Ron Hood, a young outdoors person, takes us on a wilderness trip which has helped him become more self-confident in his own abilities. He starts out on one side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California with a few tools and the clothes on his back. He covers 70 miles, making or finding all his own survival needs, and arrives at his goal - the other side of the range. A film by Nina Klienberg
Source: http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=968adefc-d190-4a81-938b-a75ecd129724&cat=&sub=
Quelques commentaires du principal interesse sur son forum :
http://www.hoodswoods.net/IVB/index.php?showtopic=44735&st=0 (…) 1973 if I remember correctly.
In a quick perusal I can see they cut out parts some ass thought offensive. I catch a fish by hand and whack it on a rock then examine it. That's gone. Other parts too I suspect.
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We shot on 16mm. I rented two cameras. One was an old Rollie combat camera and the other was some fancy thing with audio. We also hired a sound man who carried an audio recorder (tape). We used a waterproof case for the river crossing which was real nightmare since the water WAS 38f and running deep and fast. I actually rigged a traverse above the crossing for one camera so if could shoot down on the action but it moved too much so we didn't use the footage. I crossed the river several times and was pretty deep into hypothermia by the time we finished.
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I weighed in around 160-165. At the time I was spending roughly 6 months a year in the woods teaching and practicing survival skills. During those days I'd walk 20 miles without noticing and I once did a crossing of the Sierra mountain range in one day, roughly 50 miles with about a 15,000 ft elevation change (up and downs) in between.... This girl called me from lone pine and it just seemed like the thing to do. Later I started bulking up because I was forced to carry emergency gear for the teaching part. I ended up with between 85 and 110 lbs in my pack so everything grew. My ideal weight was 185 and about 2% fat. I know because they had me in the bio sciences tank a bunch of times. According to the BMI scale I was borderline obese lol!
Also, When you listen to the narration, keep in mind that isn't me. The day we rented the sound studio for the VO (Expensive!!) I came down with laryngitis from practicing my narration so many times. We had to hire a guy who then tried to mimic my cadences and in post they were supposed to change the tone to more or less my voice but somehow that never happened. That fact has been bugging me for years. If I get a good copy I might get out the script and wipe the audio and do the VO myself for my copy and so I can be able to at least claim that I finished it.
When you see the scene with the cattails as insulation you might notice a little change in my appearance. When we filmed it the first time I had the cat tails and we had Coleman lanterns with foil as lights. I fumbled with the fuzz a number of times sine the normal way to do this is to drop the tails into the clothing and break it up in your clothes but that wasn't graphic enough. To make a long story short, there was a bunch of stuff on the ground, some of it hit a lantern and flashed up to my coat, through the inside of the coat and up to my beard. The beard underwent an instantaneous trim and then the flare died down. I sat there smoking for a minute while I figured things out and we wrapped the shot till my beard grew back. In all this film took us 9 months to make.
When I say I have been teaching survival for over 40 years, I can prove it.
Ron
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