Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "PeriscopeFilm" channel.

@PeriscopeFilm Fine and dandy. Just put [SILENT] in the title along with all the other stuff you had in it and I'll avoid watching it. It seems pretty disingenuous to include COMEDY SHORT when there was no soundtrack, assuming it wasn't about mimes.
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@jimmartin7881 Do you know the difference between a title and a description? Didn't think so.
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@jimmartin7881 Surely you're not suggesting every video I'm even vaguely interested in I should open it and read the whole description compared to reading just the title, which doesn't require opening the video at all. My request wa pretty simple. Put important information (like if it's silent) in the title. Not hard to implement at all. As for your rather snarky reference to my obvious lack of reading material in my life, I had over 3,000 books when I downsized and sold my house in 2005. I sold about 2,000 of them, donated 500 to the local library, and kept 500 for my use. I'm now up to almost 1,000 and am once again running out of room. So yes, I read books, and no, my knuckles don't drag on the floor.
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@jimmartin7881 Most were chosen from the reputation, favorite author, reviews, the information in the book, and some because the titles were interesting. Not one of them was chosen because I sat down and read the forward first. The forward of a book is like the description here. I shouldn't need to hunt through a description to find a salient bit of information that should have been in the title.
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@jimmartin7881 And you're certainly a good demonstration of that. I'm done with you. Go away.
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British torpedoes were to be sorely tested in the Pacific when they came up against the Japanese Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes. These really were the longest range torpedo, able top sink a ship at an extreme range of 25 miles. Some Allied ships were sunk by a Type 93 when the ship being attacked had no idea another ship was within 20 miles and had fired a torpedo. Since the Type 93 was oxygen fueled, it left almost no visible track until ti was too close to be evaded. It was only the invention, perfection, and wide use of radar by the British and Americans that blunted the effect of the Type 93.
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@Sandman253 I assume you mean some of the Japanese torpedoes sank Japanese ships. It was actually in the Battle of Sunda Strait, where Type 93's sank a minesweeper and empty troop transport. Hardly surprising given the large number of ships in the Strait and the large number of torpedoes fired.
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@PeriscopeFilm I'm glad to hear that. I saw this movie back in the mid-60's and the colors were very vibrant. Stuart Legg, the producer, chose airliners and locations for their colors and how one scene juxtaposed color in the next. This must have been recorded on low quality color film to have faded this badly, or maybe it was just poor storage. Whatever the reason, I look forward to seeing it again in the original colors.
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@PeriscopeFilm That's true. It may have been backdrop for a spoken script that could change depending the crowd it was being shown to. Whatever the case, it was exceptionally clear for an early color movie, and the colors have really held up well over the years. It must have been stored in the proverbial dark and cool place to preserve the colors this well.
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Strangely, Jack Webb was in the USAAF during WWII but washed out of flight training. He was then given a hardship discharge to take care of his ailing mother and grandmother. Why he was given this role narrating a Marine Corp recruiting film is a mystery to me.
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@rapman5363 Firstly, I've been watching Jack Webb in films and on TV for longer than you've been alive so we can knock off that "lesson over" crap now. My question was why not use a retired Marine instead of Jack Webb, not that Jack Webb made a terrible narrator. There were guys like Lee Marvin, Tyrone Power, Hugh O'Brien, and George C Scott around at the time who were former Marines and would have been as good a narrator for the film as Jack Webb. They also would have had some skin in the game rather than just being a hired actor. Pretty simple point for you to get your panites all in a wad over.
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Too bad the film is in such bad shape.
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@jonhohensee3258 And you know I'm in such bad shape how? Go troll somewhere else.
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@jonhohensee3258 Yes, several women have told me that.
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This happened in Trinidad, not Rosemead. https://hoodsite.com/businessman-assaulted-and-robbed-200k-by-goons-in-trinidad
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@SFTaYZa Thanks
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@jacksons1010 This is my last attempt to get you to undersatnd that 1942 didn't happen last year. Did you watch the video in my link? The British certainly weren't confident that the Germans were defeated. The US won a single naval battle by the fall of 1942 but lost two. No one then knew the long term effect oif any of the defeats or that victory. We put most if resources into the was against the Germans because, as Roosevelt d=said at the time, you don't put out a fire in the yard when the living room is ablaze. It would take time for the Japanese to consolidate all their 1942 victories before they could attack Australia or the US. Germany was at the British front door. You have learned some facts about WWII with no understanding of what they meant. I'm done now. Believe what you wish.
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 @SugarBearMosher an overall length of 206 inches, over 17 feet, was small? I can tell you've never driven one.
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@SugarBearMosher As I've written, the Star Chief was 206 inches long overall. That's compared to a 2020 GMC Yukon at 203 inches. We can quibble all day long about what your idea is of small, but the objective evidence is the Star Chief was not a small car.
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@vinnydaq13 Pearl and ivory grips for revolvers were popular right to the end of revolvers in police work.
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Are you aware your opening screen is reversed?
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The M3 37mm antitank gun was brand new in 1940. These guns were also the main armament the M2A4 "medium" tanks shown in the film. This antitank gun was already obsolescent in June, 1940, as German tanks already had armor that was proof against a 37mm round. The M2A4 only saw combat with the Marines in Guadalcanal for only a few months, thereafter only being used for training. The M2/M3/M5 would be reclassified as light tanks by 1942 since they couldn't fight against heavier German tanks. The M2A4 was the only semi-modern tank available at the time of these maneuvers. The first M3 Grant medium tank that had a decent chance against German armor entered service in late 1940, but even the Grant was obsolescent, with its high silhouette and sponson mounted main gun. The 1940 maneuvers, which were happening at the same time as the Fall of France, should have been a warning about how ill prepared we were for war. We had less than 300 tanks of any type available in 1940, with only about fifty 37mm and seventy 90mm antiaircraft guns. The sound detectors were almost worthless, and the M5 director units were only useful in daylight. Instead of alarm bells going off about the war in Europe, these maneuvers gave us a false sense of security of how well our new "mechanized army" could fight, even though 70% of all transport was still by horse and mules. The 7,000 Dodge trucks of all types were less than what Dodge was turning out per day by October, 1942. Except for a few scattered after action reports by soldiers like Patton, the Army assured the public we were ready for war if it came. The Battle of Kasserine Pass in February, 1943 showed how badly prepared we really were.
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What is that supposed to mean?
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