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Does anyone here have a copy of the Lost Dutchman Mine episode of I search for Adventure TV show?
This weekly show ran in 1955 thereabouts.
I saw a tape recording of the LDM episode some years ago and would like to see it again.
The show usually started with JD in a studio standing by a ship's wheel prop and announcing that weeks episode. Sometimes the filmmaker/ explorer was standing beside him.
The show format was usually: running of a half hour of video from 35mm film reel which the explorers of that era had taken on their journey.
The LDM episode was not something that interested me particularly at the time but I remember two things.
1) The film maker/ explorer in wandering through the Superstitions met up with a group of outdoorsmen who called themselves 'Darby's Rangers' who were as I recall a small armed civilian posse group that sometimes patrolled the area. I do remember that Darby fired off his Colt 45 six shooter revolver for the cameras.
2) The host (Jack Douglas) said something like: clues from maps or words written down which point out landmarks in a certain direction from a given vantage point were useless if you were not standing at that particular vantage point. But one pointer was superimposed on the area that did not change with location: the huge shadow formed by Weaver's Needle on the terrain. Apparently at sometime Jake Walsh had said the closest the shadow tip ever gets to the mine entrance was along about a certain week of the year and about a certain daily time. I forget how approximately close it was supposed to be to the entrance. About a mile, a hundred yards, I don't remember.
I would like to watch that old episode.
This weekly show ran in 1955 thereabouts.
I saw a tape recording of the LDM episode some years ago and would like to see it again.
The show usually started with JD in a studio standing by a ship's wheel prop and announcing that weeks episode. Sometimes the filmmaker/ explorer was standing beside him.
The show format was usually: running of a half hour of video from 35mm film reel which the explorers of that era had taken on their journey.
The LDM episode was not something that interested me particularly at the time but I remember two things.
1) The film maker/ explorer in wandering through the Superstitions met up with a group of outdoorsmen who called themselves 'Darby's Rangers' who were as I recall a small armed civilian posse group that sometimes patrolled the area. I do remember that Darby fired off his Colt 45 six shooter revolver for the cameras.
2) The host (Jack Douglas) said something like: clues from maps or words written down which point out landmarks in a certain direction from a given vantage point were useless if you were not standing at that particular vantage point. But one pointer was superimposed on the area that did not change with location: the huge shadow formed by Weaver's Needle on the terrain. Apparently at sometime Jake Walsh had said the closest the shadow tip ever gets to the mine entrance was along about a certain week of the year and about a certain daily time. I forget how approximately close it was supposed to be to the entrance. About a mile, a hundred yards, I don't remember.
I would like to watch that old episode.
