Just watched 'Gypsy Moths'

[dbattman 0]

I just finished 'The Gypsy Moths' coutesy of Netflix. If you can get through the 70 minutes of drama, some of the skydiving sequenced are pretty coolt. I liked the special feature about the skydivers themselves on the DVD version. Some of the multi-canopy shots were pretty good, and the tear-away jumpsuit had me laughing hard.

Someone told me about a movie where the camera man had a Polaroid mounted on his helmet. Anyone know the name? I'll add it to my list.

[chuteless 1]

When my Mom visited our dropzone back in 1965, my brother and I went to 7500 ft and I took a Polaroid of him in freefall. After opening my chute, I pulled the "tab" and by the time I was on the ground, the picture was developed, and I gave it to our Mom. She then signed our log books.

I had taken quite a few polaroids, always with a hand held camera.

Bill Cole D-41

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I had taken quite a few polaroids, always with a hand held camera.

Bill Cole D-41


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[chuteless 1]

Gee, I needed a good laugh....and that did it. LOL

If you knew....LOL

Bill Cole D-41

[mmedsker 0]

The movie was pretty good for it's time, if like you said, you can get past the 70 minutes of drama. Nice to see the Para-Commanders, which I still have great memories of. Wow, haven't things changed!

[councilman24 36]

I've managed to collect most of the movie posters for the Gypsy Moths. Some 8x10 lobby cards, one a three way, one the multi colored rounds, an English full size poster, a Austrailian tall skinny version, and a couple of other full size ones. If and when I get my basement remodel done I have a theme.

I'm old for my age.
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[PrairieDoug 0]

Ya know, I actually enjoyed both the skydiving and the drama in GM. It was interesting to see Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman in their younger days. And Deborah Kerr was pretty sexy in a MILF sort of way. The romantic tension between her attraction to the daring skydiver and her comfortable-but-too-predictable home life was well done, and I think legitimate. I just thought all the hand-wringing about the dreaded "cape stunt" was a little over the top.

[airdvr 200]

Here's a bit of interesting trivia about that movie. To get the correct crowd reaction when Burt Lancaster goes in cameras were mounted near the stands and a dummy was dropped and allowed to bounce in front of the spectators.

Please don't dent the planet.

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[chuteless 1]

Of course a dummy was dropped....did you really think it was Burt Lancaster? LOL


Bill Cole

[pchapman 262]

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Someone told me about a movie where the camera man had a Polaroid mounted on his helmet. Anyone know the name? I'll add it to my list.

That's in one of the British "Wally Gubbins" skydiving videos. Late 1980s or thereabouts.

[NickDG 23]

>>Of course a dummy was dropped....did you really think it was Burt Lancaster? LOL <<

Sure it's a dummy, however the spectators didn't know it was coming so they thought what they saw was the real thing - the director got just the crowd reaction he wanted.

Since I don't think something has to blow up every ten seconds I've always enjoyed the "Drama" part . . .

And the stunts still hold up. The multi-canopy deployments with different color rounds is better than anything being done now . . . and nobody is doing triple cutaways today.

Nowadays too many demos are just swoop, twirl, panic, crash . . .
Nick BASE 194

[mmedsker 0]

All the actors did do a great job, just a little slow at times. I was told that it was the only movie where Deborah did a nude scene. She looked good.

[NickDG 23]

>>the only movie where Deborah did a nude scene. She looked good.<<

Man, and those peals . . .

Nick BASE 194

[JohnRich 4]

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>>the only movie where Deborah did a nude scene. She looked good.<<

Man, and those peals . . .

What the heck are "peals"?