https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/e9a820a7-7f61-40aa-b7f2-9ac352a9d863 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This episode titled “The Spelunkers” from the TV series “True Adventure” is a Bill Burrud Production from the late 1950s, produced by William H. White with Gene McCabe and Gerald Pearce, directed by Betty Turbiville, and edited by William R. Lieb. This upload is a black-and-white film, hosted by Bill Burrud, and the episode covers a film crew, alongside spelunker Joe Meyerhouser or Meyerhauser, exploring the Colossal Cave in Arizona, and gives mention of speleology and historical discoveries found in caves. Fireworks (00:10). Credits (00:16). “True Adventure” title banner (00:26). The Earth (00:32). Host Bill Burrud introduces the episode and speaks about cave-exploring (00:40). Views of an explorer climbing in a cave (01:07). Bill Burrud continues to speak about cave-exploring (01:36). Views of Colossal Cave Mountain Park in Arizona (02:16). Tourists explore the cave (02:34). Spelunker, Joe, is planning to further explore Colossal cave alongside True Adventure’s crew (02:44). The camera crew is preparing their equipment (03:14). A layout of Colossal Cave (04:06). The Colossal Cave entrance (04:26). Joe and the True Adventure crew enter the cave (04:29). Views of the cave (05:09). The crew leaves the established trails in the cave and starts exploring narrow passages (05:19). A layout of Colossal Cave (07:22). The crew explores a wide opening inside the cave (07:26). The camera crew is filming (07:47). Views of the crew members crawling through narrow passages to adjust lighting in order to film the exploring (07:53). Joe and the camera men set up ropes, and crawl down shafts into an unexplored part of the cave (08:25). A view of the cave (10:14). Bats living in the cave (10:19). Views of dripstone formations (10:26). The crew is crawling deeper into the cave through narrow passages (10:31). One member sits on a cave side, folds his rope, and observes the view of the cave and the ceiling of dripstone (11:19). The crew continues exploring the cave (11:50). They find stalactites, which ring like bells when hit (12:13). Joe is explaining stalagmites to the camera crew (12:55). Views of stalactites and stalagmites which have grown together and formed a column (13:08). Views of stalactites and stalagmites inside the cave (13:43). Joe explains another formation of calcium carbonate deposits called flowstone (13:55). The crew continues exploring the cave (14:12). They discover a hole (14:30) and Joe uses a kit to test the air for carbon dioxide (14:35). The test confirms the hole is safe to climb down into (15:36) and the crew climbs down (15:42). Views of the cave down the hole (17:38). The crew finds further passages and starts exploring (17:43). They discover smoke traces on the ceiling, indicating the presence of a man-made fire at some point (18:24). The crew starts their climb back and out of the cave (18:45). They climb out of the cave through a small escape hole allegedly made as an escape route by four bandits who robbed a train in 1884 and hid for weeks in the cave before being caught (20:33). The crew sits on the ground in sunlight and talks (21:11). They light cigarettes (21:21). Views of the ground above the cave (21:38). Views of the cave (21:49). Host Bill Burrud is interviewing a speleologist and an assistant curator of the Southwest Museum in Southern California, Charles Rosaire, about his scientific exploration of caves (22:04). Charles shows a sandal found in a cave, a native american artefact (23:01). He shows another indian artefact found in a cave: a piece of matting used as a mattress or cover (23:36). Bill Burrud asks Charles about a great archeological find in a cave (24:44). Charles talks about the Dead Sea Scrolls (24:53) and some of the earliest remains known to man found in a cave in China (24:59). Bill Burrud thanks Charles and concludes the episode (25:49). Credits (26:02). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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