Open call for Oak Island-related footage

[GravelTeeth]

As I hope we can all agree, regardless of whether we believe in a treasure or not there's been literal tons of media generated regarding the mystery and the search efforts through the years. The stuff that's in print is fascinating of course, but so is the material that was created as video, whether that was a news segment, a documentary, an episode of a ongoing series, what have you. I would like to request that this community link to videos here in this thread that pre-date The Curse of Oak Island and its family of related titles from History Channel (and pre-date any Curse-derivative content from youTube ... otherwise we'd be swamped). So in other words, pre-2014.

In particular I would like to find an episode of the CBC show called The Fifth Estate that would have aired in approximately fall 1980 or thereabouts. Supposedly it focused on Oak Island in whole or in part, but I can only find sporadic instances of that's show's episodes reproduced on the web, and cannot find that one. Many of youse here on this site seem to be old geezers like myself, so who knows, maybe one of you taped it to VHS or Betamax back in the day and still have it sitting around somewhere?

I'm also open to finding BuzzMarshall's pre-Curse Lagina episodes, whether those be video blogs on youTube or polished episodes from some alternative network. I'm very dubious they exist, but maybe.

I'll start: In Search Of ... season 3, episode 16 "The Money Pit Mystery" (a.k.a. "Captain Kidd"), originally aired 18 January 1979 - .

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[GravelTeeth]

Here's an interesting one from 1939, apparently: Le Roy Crooks film about Oak Island. It has no sound, unfortunately. Anybody have a link to a version with sound?

In attempting to learn more about this footage, a thread on Reddit popped up, where they speculated that it may have been part of a larger film. Then there's some stuff on Facebook from the filmmaker's son: promo1, promo2, both linked from The Archives of LeRoy Crooks.

There are some primitive animations that are like prototype versions of the ones we see on Curse, including an illustration of two stacked boxes or vaults at around the 1:23 mark, no doubt visualizing Truro's drill findings from 1849. The chimney-looking thing at around 8:16 is a mystery without the sound ... could the Smith house where the so-called 90-foot stone was embedded in the fireplace/chimney have still been (partially) standing to be filmed in 1939?

--GT

Edited: typo + spacing

 

[mtdoramike]

Now we all can't agree on what we had for breakfast this morning, so I highly doubt it.