@@sophistichistory4645 heck the book moby Rick is even in Khan’s library when Chekhov comes aboard the Botany Bay. Plus Khan’s line “I’ll chase him round the moons of nebula and the attarius malestrum and participial flames before I give him up.”
It's hard to believe, but the fact is that these scenes were so scary and terrifying in their time that people in the cinema closed their eyes out of fear !
It was considered frightening because we used to consider whales monstrous, dangerous creatures. Now that we know how smart and benevolent they are, the whalers are the ones to be feared.
Cinematography, score, dialogue, costumes, editing superb. In 1956, no stereo, no cgi. High tech in '56 was green screen, overdubbing, using miniatures. The suspence, powerful anger and hatred are riveting.
When I see this awesome performance of Gregory Peck, I think always to Ernest HEMINGWAY. He could writte it. MELVILLE has created a real "Chef d'Oeuvre", and John HOUSTON magnified it. 👏👏👏👏👏👍
This is the first movie I remember seeing. I was 4 or 5 at the time. My parents went to the drive in to see it. Scared the crap out of me…I remember that!
The coffin, Drowned Queequeg’s coffin kept me afloat for one whole day and night, till a ship sailed by, The Rachel, still searching for her missing children, only to find an orphan.
"Call me Ishmael." Great novel, great movie. Mark Rascovich based his book 'The Bedford Incident' on 'Moby Dick'. The final 2 sentences are almost identical in both books.
@@Daniel-yo5es It is better from our generations perspective. Puppets and models are real things even if they are still puppets and model's. To us your CGI looks like a video game. Nothing real about a video game. It's all fake. You kids like the video game look, we like the real model look. His comment is not dumb.
There are examples of good and bad practical effects, same goes with CGI. This particular example of practical effects is one of the best, even in today's standard of CGI - just look at how they capture the close encounters with the whale...
The way the water moves gives the toy ship away and would have been done better today with cg today, but still good for the time and the whale looked more realistic than the shark in Jaws decades later.
This is absolutely, objectively not better than today's CGI. Lol You see CGI and modern compositing in every movie and Netflix show you watch and don't even realize it because it's indistinguishable from reality. The car passing by in the background, the trees blowing in the wind, etc, may or may not have been digitally inserted and you wouldn't know.
Can’t blame the poor pincushion whale for getting pissed off and destroying them all, he was crisscrossed with scars and stuck with multiple harpoons. Ahab must have held the world record for the longest free-dive.
Fun fact: Gregory Peck reappeared in another reboot of MOBY DICK. This time Peck played the town minister and Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab, which is interesting because Stewart recited many lines from MOBY DICK when he played Captain Picard. Ricardo Montalban played Khan Noonien Singh who also recited many lines from MOBY DICK. In this case Admiral Kirk was the white whale and Khan was Ahab.
@@HerrEllsworth Now if we're talking about Gregory Peck nautical adventures, then we have to include, HORATIO HORNBLOWER. MOBY DICK. ON THE BEACH. THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS. I like it when Peck plays a lawyer in; CAPE FEAR. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
What a fantastic film this is, wonderful casting, no CGI. Whenever I hear 'Mountains' Nantucket Sleigh Ride I remember being enthralled by this film...Brilliant..
Impressive visual effects for the time. Aside from the whale itself, they even modeled the whale boats with little men rowing inside them. It would be interesting to see a making-of doc that explains how they created all the effects.
For the time this film came out it's still a classic great actors even the special effects were good for the time very good story telling love this film always. 📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬📽📽
Good film and an outstanding novel. Regardless of your feelings you had to be one brave man to go to circle the globe, to the center of the deepest parts of the ocean, get in a row boat and hunt a 60 ton, bull Spermacetti whale.
Gave it a thumbs-up. Interesting documentary-style presentation. But, must say I prefer it with one of the most magnificent film scores of all time. The music is a poem of the sea capturing it's varied and changing moods.
Very good job fellows!! Tour de force for Gregory Peck. I watched the entire movie just studying his every move, facial expression and every word! One of the most powerful performances from an actor I've ever seen. Take away everything else and just his acting would be worth the watch.
I've always wondered if, at the end, Starbuck finally succumbed to Ahab's madness, or if, when he gave the last command to pursue Moby Dick, he was actually just holding fast to his previously stated belief that MD was just a beast, not a devil.
for starbuck who thinks ahab has committed blasphemy by raising his fist to god the reaction of the crew seeing ahab beckon thus making the whole hunt and the whale supernatural is too much.to him its an even worse blaphsemy to think the whale sent by god or the devil! its just a whale a monstrous big one but a whale! he holds to his strict beliefs til the end never giving in to ahabs madness.
@@stesilaus1688 There's a movie called, ORCA where the killer whale goes after the hunter who killed its mate and offspring. Can't we all get along? I like the stories where the roles are reversed. The animal becomes the apex predator over man. Most of the time man wins out, except in PLANET OF THE APES.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 The dynamic also changes now that Ahab is dead. Ahab's obsession died with him, and to Starbuck, Moby Dick is now "just a whale".
Astonishing performance by my favorite movie star. Gregory Peck to me embodies everything good about what Hollywood should represent. Most of all in this classic tale of nature overmatching man. The crazed torment of Ahab pours through in every word he utters. Star Trek The Wrath of Khan borrowed Ahabs line. In all respect to Ricardo Montalban, Peck is an actor of far greater depth. He should have won the Academy Award in a walk for this glorious performance. "For hates sake, I stab at thee!" And for insanitys sake as well. Peck should gave had two statues to his honor. As good or better than his Atticus Finch. Only in a strange, more twisted way.
Un clásico del cine, me llevé una sorpresa al conocer que se había rodado en la isla de Gran Canaria, los carpinteros del muelle tuvieron bastante trabajo. Gracias un saludo 🇮🇨🇪🇸
It’s worth knowing that in the book Moby Dick took Ahab’s leg… twice The first time made him get all of this obsession on killing the whale The second time was during the Pequod’s second hunting day on Moby Dick, destroying his prostatic leg and taking Ahab’s allie during it’s hunt, Parse
That scene at the end triggered my PTSD. My buddies girlfriend was a biggie as well, and once when she did a cannon ball off the high board All I remember is the air mattress getting sucked down in the giant hole in the water where she landed.
Oh boy! I haven’t seen this since 1956, when my dad took us into Hartford to see it. He was a graduate student then, and drove an intercity bus part time, and took the family (6 of us) using the bus.
The direction is surprising for the time, you don't need CGI to tell a good story, this is art, totally handmade, just like Planet Krypton when it appears on the screen in Superman the movie, exciting and visceral!
In his younger days my Uncle Jimmy volunteered for the lifeboat crew at his local station. This was in Pembrokeshire. He told me a story that on the morning after a wild storm his crew was called out. Not to save someone in peril, but to search for a fibreglass whale that had broken free in the storm. The whale was found and returned to those making this film. Its attempt at escape failed, it seems.
Yep. Spielberg talks about using no music during the shark attacks in Jaws. The music comes before (to build suspense) and after. I think it works well here too.
Outstanding film. Just as I’ve always remembered it as a kid 50 years ago. And thought of it for as many years since. Ahab. Roped to, and drown by the White Whale Moby Dick! Still strikes immense fear in me to this day.
One pissed off whale. This movie was terrifying to me, watched with my father in the basement, on black and white. Then watched Seahunt. Loyd Bridges. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
I've always wondered why cinema from this era features such tinny audio. I know most of this stuff had to be done in post. Listen to music from that era, and it's proven we had the technology for very natural and dynamic audio.
It could be the bandwidth limitation of optical audio tracks on film. There were better recording and reproduction technologies at the time, which would require separate audio playback source synchronization with the film projectors, but this would also require investment in more equipment and staff for all theaters. As late as the 1980s TV stations were broadcasting film movies with optical audio from RCA film chains, although we did use Nagra audio recorders in the field which could be sync'd to film or videotape systems in post-production for mastering on videotape.
Most movie theaters in the 1950s had terrible terrible audio .....believe me ...typically a 15 watt monophonic amp driving 4 12inch western electric full range speakers...your tv at home had better audio quality....
The original audio was recorded on magnetic 1/4" tape. I'm sure those tracks are clean. It only became tinny when the sound mix was transferred to optical track for the movie print. That would have been considered the finished product. My hunch is that the original audio was lost or destroyed. All subsequent transfers have to be made from the optical track.
Glory be, Mandolindley Road Show. The sound effects you've uploaded here are astounding and breathtaking as if we're watching live Moby Dick is tormented by Captain Ahab. Thunder and Hell, you've done a superb service for impressing me with your high stereo resonance in this beloved movie classic.
I still can't stomach this scene after so many years. Poor Starbuck, faithful to the end. Poor Starbuck, ever the fool. 10 times an ass, 10 times a mule.
@@Gwaithmir I guess if I was a star trek geek or read Melville s novel I wud ve known. I read books in hi schul but never tried Melville. Oh well I went back and watched ST2 and saw wat u pointed out. Thanks
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This film is 66 years old and this scene remains mesmerising
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!!"
That's my go-to line when someone cuts me off in traffic.
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!
@@NomadRepublic Yep......the screenwriters for "The Wrath of Khan" knew their Hermann Melville.
😁😁😁
@@sophistichistory4645 heck the book moby Rick is even in Khan’s library when Chekhov comes aboard the Botany Bay. Plus Khan’s line “I’ll chase him round the moons of nebula and the attarius malestrum and participial flames before I give him up.”
Man, try decaf instead!
A man's obsession with revenge destroys him and all his followers. I've seen it before.
It's hard to believe, but the fact is that these scenes were so scary and terrifying in their time that people in the cinema closed their eyes out of fear !
It was considered frightening because we used to consider whales monstrous, dangerous creatures. Now that we know how smart and benevolent they are, the whalers are the ones to be feared.
Ray Bradbury knew how to scare people as well as any writer who ever lived. His horror short stories are wonderfully terrifying.
Cinematography, score, dialogue, costumes, editing superb. In 1956, no stereo, no cgi. High tech in '56 was green screen, overdubbing, using miniatures. The suspence, powerful anger and hatred are riveting.
When I see this awesome performance of Gregory Peck, I think always to Ernest HEMINGWAY. He could writte it. MELVILLE has created a real "Chef d'Oeuvre", and John HOUSTON magnified it.
👏👏👏👏👏👍
Moby Dick a book worth reading, a movie worth seeing
blue screen?
In one shot you can see house's and the coast line with the water break.
Still a good film for its time
This is the first movie I remember seeing. I was 4 or 5 at the time. My parents went to the drive in to see it. Scared the crap out of me…I remember that!
The coffin,
Drowned Queequeg’s coffin kept me afloat for one whole day and night, till a ship sailed by, The Rachel, still searching for her missing children, only to find an orphan.
Just finished it. Melville is the dude, and kinda nuts
The great shroud of the sea
With the lines superbly read by Richard Basehart...
"Call me Ishmael." Great novel, great movie. Mark Rascovich based his book 'The Bedford Incident' on 'Moby Dick'. The final 2 sentences are almost identical in both books.
@@RyanDuffy1192 mad?? Absolutely barking!!
One of the greatest examples of practical effects, much better than today's CGI
lmao... no it isnt. absolutely not. just an silly statement.
@@Daniel-yo5es It is better from our generations perspective. Puppets and models are real things even if they are still puppets and model's. To us your CGI looks like a video game. Nothing real about a video game. It's all fake. You kids like the video game look, we like the real model look. His comment is not dumb.
There are examples of good and bad practical effects, same goes with CGI. This particular example of practical effects is one of the best, even in today's standard of CGI - just look at how they capture the close encounters with the whale...
The way the water moves gives the toy ship away and would have been done better today with cg today, but still good for the time and the whale looked more realistic than the shark in Jaws decades later.
This is absolutely, objectively not better than today's CGI. Lol
You see CGI and modern compositing in every movie and Netflix show you watch and don't even realize it because it's indistinguishable from reality. The car passing by in the background, the trees blowing in the wind, etc, may or may not have been digitally inserted and you wouldn't know.
" With a hail of Harbooooons!..... With every last drop of my being! "
CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!!!!
Behold! A true drake warrior! *points to the player character wearing a pot on his head* and I Igon!!
CURSE YOU WHALE!!!
This has to be Gregory Peck’s greatest role. He was so good in this movie!
By far!! (And "The Guns of Navarrone" was pretty good, too)
Khan tried to copy it but failed 👍
I read some old reviews of this film and the critics didn't like Peck's Ahab - they said it was weak- but I think it was his best performance.
Perhaps, but I always see him as Atticus Finch first
Cape Fear
This classic still holds up in every way what a tale Melvilles masterpiece!!
Bravo to all involved
better than the majority of the movies nowadays.
You've gotta say the effects are superb if you think this came out 60 or so years ago
Impressive that this was done in 1956.
1 year before i was born and i can say is ,,,wow and ohm myyy.
That was JAWS before Jaws in1956
@@robinswenson9045 Made everyone not go whaling for one summer in 1956.
« The birds…..it rises !!! » The way his voices trembles saying it, wow.
I think it's "He rises"
Can’t blame the poor pincushion whale for getting pissed off and destroying them all, he was crisscrossed with scars and stuck with multiple harpoons. Ahab must have held the world record for the longest free-dive.
Never underestimate a man who have fueled with motivation and revenge, they can even move a mountain if they want it
a man's gotta know his limitations
When seeking revenge, prepare to dig two graves.
Magnum force and for your eyes only?
2:58 Ricardo Montalban said it best
@@leoperidot482I have a shovel
@@deitchj003 The Hoof …
They needed a bigger boat.
Lol 😂
Lol that’s funny!
Or a smaller whale.
Yes a battleship would have been useful.
funnily enough Quint is based on Ahab
I’ve liked that movie ever since I watched it as a kid. Gregory Peck as Ahab is great casting.
Fun fact: Gregory Peck reappeared in another reboot of MOBY DICK. This time Peck played the town minister and Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab, which is interesting because Stewart recited many lines from MOBY DICK when he played Captain Picard.
Ricardo Montalban played Khan Noonien Singh who also recited many lines from MOBY DICK. In this case Admiral Kirk was the white whale and Khan was Ahab.
It's his voice. Imagine having Gregory Peck, pissed off and layin into you. Scary!
This movie scared the heck out of me as a kid. When I finally understood the concept of death. Didn't sleep well that night or several after.
Do a double feature sometime of this film and Peck's other nautical adventure, Horatio Hornblower, and you will see his versatility.
@@HerrEllsworth Now if we're talking about Gregory Peck nautical adventures, then we have to include,
HORATIO HORNBLOWER.
MOBY DICK.
ON THE BEACH.
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS.
I like it when Peck plays a lawyer in;
CAPE FEAR.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
Watched it in the 60s on telly, didn't realise till now it's in colour! Fantastic
What a fantastic film this is, wonderful casting, no CGI. Whenever I hear 'Mountains' Nantucket Sleigh Ride I remember being enthralled by this film...Brilliant..
This is actually all cgi. The whole thing is green screen. Same team who made the star wars prequels.
A great masterpiece.
AGREE 🐳⛵🎥🎞️. 🥇
This was probably Gregory Peck's finest moment his portrayal of the Captain obsessed with the white whale.
👍👍👍👍🐳🐳
30 years later after first seen it. that thing still scares me.
I like this one far more than the one Patrick Stewart did. Stewart is a fine actor but you can't compete with a classic like this.
They call me Ismael
IMO, the Stewart film was inferior in just about every way.
Isaac and Ishmael, easily confused
Agreed but then, that's why they copied it.
Call me Ishmael, without "they"...
@@kourtourafi Thank you 👍
In the mid fifties this was unbeliveable .
Impressive visual effects for the time. Aside from the whale itself, they even modeled the whale boats with little men rowing inside them. It would be interesting to see a making-of doc that explains how they created all the effects.
Gregory Peck has always been one of my favorite actors. This movie is one of his finest performances ever.
Peck would have disagreed with you.
For the time this film came out it's still a classic great actors even the special effects were good for the time very good story telling love this film always. 📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬📽📽
Those special effects are unbelievably great given the time.
First time I've seen this since it was on Sunday Night at the Movies in the early 60's. Terrific movie.
I saw it then too pretty sure it was in black and white
I've got both, original and remake. No comparison.
Fantastic. Great acting from ahab here absolutely
One of the best actors/movies of my life!!
Good film and an outstanding novel. Regardless of your feelings you had to be one brave man to go to circle the globe, to the center of the deepest parts of the ocean, get in a row boat and hunt a 60 ton, bull Spermacetti whale.
In the novel the mysterious Arab mate was the one tied to the whale.
Gave it a thumbs-up. Interesting documentary-style presentation. But, must say I prefer it with one of the most magnificent film scores of all time. The music is a poem of the sea capturing it's varied and changing moods.
色々リメイクされましたがやはりこれが最高ですね🎥☺️Ｇペックの名演も最高ですね😁
Wow !! Insanely Great Movie ,... it's right there with jaws and the Quint scene !!
Very good job fellows!! Tour de force for Gregory Peck. I watched the entire movie just studying his every move, facial expression and every word! One of the most powerful performances from an actor I've ever seen. Take away everything else and just his acting would be worth the watch.
Wowwwww!!!! This final scene is epic!! Gregory Peck is the man!
I've always wondered if, at the end, Starbuck finally succumbed to Ahab's madness, or if, when he gave the last command to pursue Moby Dick, he was actually just holding fast to his previously stated belief that MD was just a beast, not a devil.
for starbuck who thinks ahab has committed blasphemy by raising his fist to god the reaction of the crew seeing ahab beckon thus making the whole hunt and the whale supernatural is too much.to him its an even worse blaphsemy to think the whale sent by god or the devil! its just a whale a monstrous big one but a whale! he holds to his strict beliefs til the end never giving in to ahabs madness.
Ahab's obsession with revenge took his life after all.
He was fine - opened coffee shops all over the world.
Very good!
@@mikekemp9877 Excellent reply.👍
The Great Gregory Peck. Brilliant film. The best version. Never been beaten. And a sterling co cast.
Best version ever. Remakes should be forbiden.
Great movie, based on the tragic story of the whaler Essex. That was nice little Nantucket sleigh ride.
I always felt sympathy for the whale, even as a teenager when I first read the novel.
Yup, that's like getting mad at a tiger who attacks his trainer. All it was doing was being a tiger.
Naturally, the whale was the one who was attacked and therefore had the right to strike back and did so with a vengence of his own.
I was sympathetic towards the whale ever since I saw him portrayed as "Dopey Mick" in a "Beano" comic strip.
@@stesilaus1688 There's a movie called, ORCA where the killer whale goes after the hunter who killed its mate and offspring. Can't we all get along?
I like the stories where the roles are reversed. The animal becomes the apex predator over man. Most of the time man wins out, except in PLANET OF THE APES.
@@stesilaus1688, what about the Tom & Jerry cartoon “Dicky Moe”?
Love this ending. Starbuck, the previously reluctant pursuer of Moby Dick, now takes on Ahab's obsession. The final lines are classic.
I don't think that it was an obsession with Starbuck, like it was with Ahab. Starbuck views Moby Dick as only a whale and they are whaling men.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 The dynamic also changes now that Ahab is dead. Ahab's obsession died with him, and to Starbuck, Moby Dick is now "just a whale".
Ahab was definitely what old sailors called "bucking a head wind ". (Insane)
Astonishing performance by my favorite movie star. Gregory Peck to me embodies everything good about what Hollywood should represent. Most of all in this classic tale of nature overmatching man. The crazed torment of Ahab pours through in every word he utters. Star Trek The Wrath of Khan borrowed Ahabs line. In all respect to Ricardo Montalban, Peck is an actor of far greater depth. He should have won the Academy Award in a walk for this glorious performance. "For hates sake, I stab at thee!" And for insanitys sake as well. Peck should gave had two statues to his honor. As good or better than his Atticus Finch. Only in a strange, more twisted way.
Still the premier film interpretation of Melville's tale.
Un clásico del cine, me llevé una sorpresa al conocer que se había rodado en la isla de Gran Canaria, los carpinteros del muelle tuvieron bastante trabajo. Gracias un saludo 🇮🇨🇪🇸
One of the epic films of all time
2:30 The whale’s like “you just don’t know when to fucking quit do you?”
🤣🤣😂😂😅.....
It’s worth knowing that in the book Moby Dick took Ahab’s leg… twice
The first time made him get all of this obsession on killing the whale
The second time was during the Pequod’s second hunting day on Moby Dick, destroying his prostatic leg and taking Ahab’s allie during it’s hunt, Parse
That scene at the end triggered my PTSD. My buddies girlfriend was a biggie as well, and once when she did a cannon ball off the high board All I remember is the air mattress getting sucked down in the giant hole in the water where she landed.
Visual effects are great in this old masterpiece if we take into consideration this movie is from 1956. It feels better than some of the nowadays CGI
Oh boy! I haven’t seen this since 1956, when my dad took us into Hartford to see it. He was a graduate student then, and drove an intercity bus part time, and took the family (6 of us) using the bus.
When acting was Oscar worthy now it’s all a circus with silly stunts for more views
lol this was incredible overacting.
And cgi
Nobody acts like this in real life.
It's all computer graphics now. Actors in a green room The rest it's all graphics now days
@@manuelgallardo7694 that what this was too. You think that was a real whale?
This film and To Kill a Mockingbird r my fave Gregory Peck movies
The direction is surprising for the time, you don't need CGI to tell a good story, this is art, totally handmade, just like Planet Krypton when it appears on the screen in Superman the movie, exciting and visceral!
A stunning & brilliant film which has stood the test of time, as good now as it was when it was first made. Btw, l was on Moby Dicks side.
Real sportsman. He's dead yet he beckons. 😂
In his younger days my Uncle Jimmy volunteered for the lifeboat crew at his local station. This was in Pembrokeshire. He told me a story that on the morning after a wild storm his crew was called out. Not to save someone in peril, but to search for a fibreglass whale that had broken free in the storm. The whale was found and returned to those making this film. Its attempt at escape failed, it seems.
The best cinematic version. Gregory Peck makes the best Capt. Ahab imho.
STWOK, Khan played the best Ahab. 'He tasks me, he tasks me, and I shall have him.'
I haven't seen this in years but it gave me nightmares then after seeing this probably will again but worth cause this was a damn good movie
I like how STAR TREK is notorious for stealing quotes from MOBY DICK. Both Khan Noonien Singh and Captain Picard used quotes from the novel.
Sometimes the lack of music intensifies a scene a lot, like in this scene for example.
Yep. Spielberg talks about using no music during the shark attacks in Jaws. The music comes before (to build suspense) and after. I think it works well here too.
When i was a kid and saw this Gregory Peck scared the bejesus out of me
Magnificent!
Masterpiece.
Great! I prefer the natural sound. It is much more dramatic.
I think we are going to need a bigger boat .. Ops , wrong film 😂😂
An inmortal novel by Herman Melville, an amazing movie and maybe the best role of Mr Peck in all his career.
Great story Great actor indeed
Great dialog Ray Bradbury.
Greg Peck....one of my favorite actors ...
Mine too. He always came off as a common man doing uncommon things in movies. Which is why I always detested John Wayne.
Outstanding film. Just as I’ve always remembered it as a kid 50 years ago. And thought of it for as many years since. Ahab. Roped to, and drown by the White Whale Moby Dick!
Still strikes immense fear in me to this day.
Damn i was looking fresh in that day
i love how the birds like just dont care
My English Class finished watching the movie today. Credit to everyone that made this film for the excellent climax & ending.
One pissed off whale. This movie was terrifying to me, watched with my father in the basement, on black and white. Then watched Seahunt. Loyd Bridges. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
This is more realistic than Jaws!
Better than 75% of today’s movies...
Sometimes you just need to let things go.
Great effects for '56.
Even with a not very realistic animatronic whale, i’m rooting for Moby Dick
Legend: a classic beyond classics!
"From hell's heart, I stab at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!! Oh damned whale!!!"
He beckons.... Even dead, Ahab beckons.
Marvelous book & movie. His obsession with Moby
Gregory Peck at his best. Great actor still to kill a mockingbird is my favorite movie along with gentleman's agreement.
One my Favourite films as a boy. Classic story, brilliant film.
C'est magnifique.
I've always wondered why cinema from this era features such tinny audio. I know most of this stuff had to be done in post. Listen to music from that era, and it's proven we had the technology for very natural and dynamic audio.
It could be the bandwidth limitation of optical audio tracks on film. There were better recording and reproduction technologies at the time, which would require separate audio playback source synchronization with the film projectors, but this would also require investment in more equipment and staff for all theaters. As late as the 1980s TV stations were broadcasting film movies with optical audio from RCA film chains, although we did use Nagra audio recorders in the field which could be sync'd to film or videotape systems in post-production for mastering on videotape.
Most movie theaters in the 1950s had terrible terrible audio .....believe me ...typically a 15 watt monophonic amp driving 4 12inch western electric full range speakers...your tv at home had better audio quality....
The original audio was recorded on magnetic 1/4" tape. I'm sure those tracks are clean. It only became tinny when the sound mix was transferred to optical track for the movie print. That would have been considered the finished product. My hunch is that the original audio was lost or destroyed. All subsequent transfers have to be made from the optical track.
A whale of a good tale.
That was the original title.
Glory be, Mandolindley Road Show. The sound effects you've uploaded here are astounding and breathtaking as if we're watching live Moby Dick is tormented by Captain Ahab. Thunder and Hell, you've done a superb service for impressing me with your high stereo resonance in this beloved movie classic.
Thank you. This was a labor of love for me. My favorite film ever.
A great book and great movie
I still can't stomach this scene after so many years. Poor Starbuck, faithful to the end. Poor Starbuck, ever the fool. 10 times an ass, 10 times a mule.
He survived to seek his fortune on land selling coffee. Such fighting resilience as never seen since.
1000 times as guilty as all those primitive minds advocate to the art of depredation and killing. A well deserved punishment.
Wow..I never knew that Kahn from Star Trek 2 quoted Ahab's "from hell's heart I stabbeth thee...." cool👍
If you had looked at Khan's bookshelf in his hut, you would have noticed his copy of "Moby Dick."
Khan also quotes from Moby Dick with the “he tasks me and I shall have him” scene.
@@Gwaithmir I guess if I was a star trek geek or read Melville s novel I wud ve known. I read books in hi schul but never tried Melville. Oh well I went back and watched ST2 and saw wat u pointed out. Thanks
ALL HAIL THE MAGNIFICENT MARITIME MASTERPIECE MOBY DICK 🤍💙
Was the whole 'conflict' between Buck and Rudy in Dawn of the Dinosaurs inspired by Moby Dock?
Filmed off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork.
A five bagger for sure worthy of Oscars gold
When movies were real movies with solid acting.
10 years old 1985 first watch stuck in my head the story I've told of is 100% accurate
Pretty good use of miniatures, but you can sure tell when they are. Water never worked to scale. Same with fire.
Ah, but remember the Atlanta burning scene in Gone With the Wind. That fire scene was COMPLETELY believable.
@@TexasPelicanin gone with the wind they actually burned a movie set, it wasn’t a miniature
from the standpoint of a cetacean, the bad guys finally got it in the end
Pecks best work...love this movie...he rises!!!!