(31 mins) Signature Attraction - A documentary about why rollercoasters exist
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Signature Attraction is a documentary that asks the question: Why do rollercoasters exist?
Why have coasters become such enduring icons of popular culture, why have they entered our vernacular (think of the last time you heard something described as a ‘rollercoaster journey’), and what does our ongoing international love affair with these short rides to (seemingly) nowhere tell us about ourselves? These questions are being asked by Malcolm Burt, an experienced film and television producer who is embarking on an international documentary research project in an effort to find the answer.
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Never thought a rollercoaster documentary could give me so many feels.
+CoasterSiaye Enjoy all the feels :)
+CoasterSiaye Hey there - may I use this quote as part of the preview I am creating for the film? Drop me a line on www.malcolmburt.com/contact/because I can't seem to private message you here?
I have no idea how I never heard of this documentary until today, but it was awesome! Thanks!
As a ride op for Cedar Point, I have to say, you really made me miss my summer home and I definitely can't wait to return there. Thank you for this beautiful documentary
+Erin McGinnis Thank you for watching - and hurry back to CP and keep making it a wonderful place for everyone :)
I am currently writing a paper on Cedar Point and came across your video while doing research. Great story! I love theme parks and roller coasters. They will always have a special place in my life. Thanks for sharing!
Good to know that there's a lot of us out there, for a while I thought I was one of the only ones until I found a group of them that I started talking to, and that made me happier than ever
+Jonathan Kazelskis Same with me! ;)
I saw someone post this the other day and I didn't bother watching because most coaster documentaries or shows are pretty much the same. I'm definitely glad I took the time to watch. Very well done!
+Phillip Poindexter I'm glad you came back to it Phillip. Spread the word! :)
+Malcolm Burt Done! I shared it to my Facebook and since most of my friends are coaster nerds I'm sure it will make its rounds.
Wow this was done 7 years ago and I’m just finding this now. This documentary spoke volumes to me. Sometimes you feel you are the only one that feels this way about theme parks, Amusement Parks and Rollercoasters. Great documentary!
Thank you :)
Very interesting. Roller coasters can definitely bring a feeling of nostalgia. However, I have never thought of roller coasters as a kid thing. There is no reason a 40, 50, 60 + person should not get on a roller coaster!
Excellent work. Very moving and touching. Thank you Malcolm.
+grindcavecinema Thank you for watching :)
beautiful... I cried
+JohnSilverstar12 I hope they were happy tears!
+Malcolm Burt yes you spoke my mind :-)
Just wanted to say thank you for this film. I identify with you in many ways and your film helped me to realise that I do have a legitimate passion in life.
Thank you for your kind comment-and thank you for watching!
Loved your doco. Beautifully filmed. Like all coaster enthusiasts, the sight of a section of track from a roller coaster gets my heart racing. I'll never forget in the late 80s or maybe 1990, Maggie T's daughter did a 1 off TV special on roller coasters in the USA. I was hooked! I watched it over & over, soaking in every minute. My 1st overseas trip was to the USA - all planned around roller coasters. It's an experience I'll never forget. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. I'm a little older then you & I'll never lose my passion for roller coasters. The adrenaline rush - I'm addicted!
+eclipsey999 That's the spirit! And don't ever lose your passion :) That TV special sounds quite random...but awesome!
+Malcolm Burt it was very random. She rated her top coaster as The Beast @ Kings Island. It was before the days of hypercoasters, giga coasters & strata coasters. By the time I went over there Magnum XL 200 had been built @ Cedar Point. I went to both parks. My travel agent messed up my accommodation near Cedar Point so when I went I only had time to queue up 1.25 hrs to go on Magnum XL 200 once then return to Cleveland. It was the only ride I went on at that park! Never been back unfortunately.
+eclipsey999 I can see why The Beast got the top gong - riding it at night changed my life (no kidding) - and I feel ill reading your story about the messed up accommodation. Imagine getting so close...and having that happen. Make a plan to go back maybe?
+Malcolm Burt I've wanted to go back ever since but life got in the way! Now the $AUD has fallen again I just can't justify the cost. Maybe if it goes back above 75c in the next few years I'll go again. Until then I live for videos like yours on RUclips!!!!
Sooo great. Congrats for making this doc. I'm brazilian and i love rollercoasters since i was 6 years old. I went to California ,last year, to finally know Six Flags Magic Mountain. I had been dreaming of going there since i was 9.(i'm 30). It was perfect. Watching your bright eyes at the end of the documentary reminded me of the feeling i got when i was there at SFMM( 5x in a week). Really amazing and bizarre to find other people that same THING i have about rollercoasters.
Now i'm planning my trip to Ohio! #CedarPoint2017
Malcom, thank you very much for this wonderful and touching documentary! As someone who works in a very similar field and sometimes even on developping rollercoaster settings, I really watched it with enthusiasm and understanding. Like a lot of the interviewed people, I think the magic about the need for rollercoasters in our society lies in the point that they make us feel alive, they make us aware of the heart and the energy that are beating in our body. But I also reckon that there are differences in why adults enjoy riding a coaster. For some it's "just" become a child for a moment or two and/or flirt with death for a second (which was truely mentioned by you in the documentary). For some it's more - and here's the connection to my main professional field as a show set designer. We who create these worlds of joy, distraction and entertainment in whatever way (theme parks, amusement parks, films, stage shows...) know like little people else how important it is to lead our visitors into moments of katharsis. Especially in our (also truely spoken: Western) world that extremely focuses on rationality, on acting as an adult as early as you can. We help people getting into these moments that they need, consciously or unconsciously and for whatever reason. And that's why they love coming back again and again, no matter how old they are. I even think that our need for katharsis grows with the years.
Visiting themed areas in a park, riding a coaster in an amusement park, going to the movies or watching a musical - it's all about escaping our ordinary life, feeling alive, discovering worlds that we normally are not able to visit and in the end, it's about feeling a moment of katharsis - which might be even bigger when we share it with our loved ones who are standing next to us. HOW we create these moments - that's our professional secrecy :-)
Still, one question came up while watching your documentary: Did you also examined if people feel kind of a saturation when they ride one coaster several times in a row, or is it just the same thrill for them as during the first time?
Hello there - thank you very much for watching, and for your kind comments! You have made some excellent observations here. And in regards to your question: I didn't ask people directly if they feel the same thrill each time they ride, but a colleague of mine (Prof Dana Anderson from the film actually) reflected that every time we go on a rollercoaster or ride that we have been on before, it's a different ride...not because the ride has changed, but because we have. It makes sense if you only visit a park once every year (or even less) and I thought it was an excellent point too!
Nice work Malcolm, great footage and interviews.
Now for your next one: A documentary about why we exist
Should be easy enough!
+tkdgun79 Thank you for watching! And hoo boy, that would be a hard piece of work!
Thanks so much for explaining to those people that think I'm nuts, exactly why I Love RollerCoasters!
+sam marks Send them the video, they'll 'get it' :)
+John Fleming Depending on how you feel about the hunting...you could do both?
That was brilliant, loved it! I can definitely recognize some of the things being said in this documentary. As others have said, it was really cool to see a different approach on a rollercoaster documentary, not just the typical sensationalism recipe you usually see when rollercoasters are the subject for a documentary film...
+MrYoung86 Thank you for watching :) You know, I do get a bit of 'I thought it was going to be just another coaster fanboy film...but I was surprised when I watched it!' (Not that there's anything wrong with coaster fanboy films of course :)
What a great documentary, one of the best I’ve ever seen
Thank you for watching, and for your lovely comment :)
FANTASTIC video! Great job tying the emotional connection of the roller coaster/amusement/theme park experience together.
+CPFoodBlog Why thank you for watching - and for documenting all the nice food I've been / will be stuffing my face with at Cedar Fair parks!
"I love roller coasters about as much as I love pizza.... And I love pizza!" - this line basically sums up my love for coasters 😂😍🎢🍕
+John Warner That line is hilarious, right?
+Malcolm Burt it basically sums up my life 😂 I feel like you basically made a documentary of my life! It's crazy! Haha! I actually spent my 30th bday last year at Disneyland and Six Flags Magic Mountain with my boyfriend 😂😍🎢
+John Warner What a marvellous and sensible way to spend a big birthday like that :)
Wow what a fantastic, well done documentary.
+joeybrkdwn Thank you for watching mate!
What an amazing documentary, job well done. I think that this can apply to a lot of different obsessions that people have.
Thank you for watching, Andrew!
Well done! Just shared this via our site/social. It takes a ton of time, talent, and passion to put something like this together!
+Amusement Park Pro Thank you for sharing! (And watching in the first place of course). When working on big projects like this it's always useful to have professors breathing down your neck about the next deadline...
Thank you for letting us participate and help add our small contribution to your story! Great work! Also thank you for the short piece you created for us about the professionals who use NoLimits 2! Keep on riding!
+NolimitsCoasterUTube It was my pleasure! I love watching the stories people tell with your software - though I've realised I can 'lose' just as many hours watching some wonderful NL videos as I did creating my own (terrible) NL coasters!
OMG I'm teary eyed like CoasterSiaye said " So many feels" absolutely wonderful documentary Malcolm, I've never watched anything and felt so connected to... like this is my life. You get a Standing O from me, I don't think this could've been done better by anyone else this is truly something special Bravo Sir :O)
+Knight Rida Thank you so much! It's wonderful to think that my little project has had some impact...and made some feels :)
+Knight Rida Hey there - would I be able to use part of your lovely comment here on the preview for the film? If so, can you drop me a line at www.malcolmburt.com/contact/ as I can't seem to private message you here!
Really fascinating documentary, it ended up making me think a lot about what makes me feel alive ! Thank you very much for your very interesting and well done project :-)
+Laurène V Why thank you for watching :)
what a documentary!!! Hey man, congratulation for ur AWESOME video! No words to express my admiration! U really know about roller coasters for sure! Make a video about roller coasters type, like, launching, flying, wooden, standing up, hypers, dive coasters and so on, OMG u must know all of there types! CONGRATZ AGAIN!!!
+Marcio De Paula Thanks for watching Marcio! And it sounds like you know about all the types of coasters already :)
Malcolm Burt i've been becoming interested on roller coasters documentaries since 2007 when I worked at six flags. I don't remember very well but my mother told me that when I was a little i always was interested on trains, she didnt know and me neither, those trains were roller coasters... I have been watching many documentaries but some things i couldnt find anywhere like, hw they use the wheels, hw big can be the wheels, hw is the maitenance, anyways, i have so many questions, when i rode my very first coaster (nitro at 6 flags) i felt like i was born for that moment lol it sounds weird i know...
beautiful documentary!
+sphoenix884 Thank you :)
Great documentary Malcolm! I'm glad that you pursued these questions to find out why we are the way we are. This is very insightful and I enjoyed the footage from the parks and all the familiar faces.
+Adam's Coaster Chronicles Thank you for watching Adam! And did you create all those NL coasters on your channel?
+Malcolm Burt Yes all the NoLimits videos on my channel are my own creations. NoLimits gives me something to do when I can't get to the parks.
+Adam's Coaster Chronicles I'm impressed. I just rode Hyperdrive!
Thanks! Hyperdrive is one of my favorites
This is awesome! Great work, Malcolm
+Joseph Pojunis Thank you Joseph!
Virtual Reality 'thrill rides' including rollecoasters seems like the next logical step. Would be interesting if it can capture all of the elements of being on a physical ride.
Very well done documentary !
Thank you very much for watching!
I saw No Limits 2 in there. Anybody here play Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid? I still love that game. So much so, that I've been doing a series on RCT2 on my channel, playing a custom sandbox scenario that I made.
+BusterTheFox I love all the coaster simulators but I'm incredibly useless at them!
So many familiar faces. And shirts.
+Kent Zacherl I bet! Thank you for watching :)
thx for this film, now i know I'm not alone; )hugs from Germany
And hugs from Australia. Thank you for watching!
Beauty full
+prague.game.studio Thank you!
Beautiful documentary! Thanks for making it and sharing it with us! PS: It was fun to see some ACE family in there!
Thank you for watching, Luke :)
PS What you did for your mother and the "footsteps" project are equally beautiful.
Thanks!
Hello, I would love to watch this video, as I absolutely love roller coasters with a passion as well. But I cannot watch it as I am Deaf, would you please consider adding closed captions to this video so I am able to watch as well? Thanks!
+ApolloVonSol Hello there - absolutely! In fact I'm onto it as another gentleman asked just last week (and it's very clear now that I should have had them when I first put it up!). I am speaking with the people at my university about a proper service for this (as I know some of the free ones are dodgy) If you follow me here I will make an announcement when it's up. Thank you for your interest :)
+Malcolm Burt Glad to hear it! RUclips does have captioning service using their software if you're interested in using it. support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en. I look forward to watching this video in full with captions! Let me know when it is available. Many thanks and I appreciate your efforts to make it accessible for all and captioning it.
Awesome video! I kinda cried. May I ask what song is that at the end?
+C.D Shelby Thank you for watching :) The entire soundtrack was composed for the film by a very bright young composer from Kansas named Brock Chart. You can hear more of his work here: soundcloud.com/brockc202
So I'm not the only one ? Good to know! 🎢🎡
+Connor Schimpf Nope, there's heaps of us!
Nice! :)
What a great video! I'd love to meet you and ride a coaster together if you ever make it back to Southern California.
+The Coaster Guy Why thank you for watching :) We're coming to Coaster Con in June, and will be in LA for a few days at the beginning so that might be an ideal time!
6:18 That guy is literally describing my life.
Hi Malcolm. I am wondering if you investigated any other emotional/physical journey associated with riding rollercoasters apart from fear and thrill taking? I believe the neurotyical experience of roller coasting is probably vastly different to the neurodiverse experience of roller-coasting and I am wondering if you investigated this or happened upon it during your research?
+Kimberley Sakzewski G'day Kim! I only touched briefly on what you mentioned (if I got it right) as I was fairly locked down to just answering the research question 'Why do rollercoasters exist'? What's clear though, is that there is a lot more going on than the first glance would suggest...
+Malcolm Burt i agree - I look at my son's reactions to riding a roller coaster and I believe its an experience along the lines of proprioception. I don't think there's much operating on the emotional level at all as the sensory input is dealt with differently in him. Its certainly a buzz for him but one mired in a more physical realm. its part of the appeal of humans to the altered state.