New Hampshire Crossroads; Making of NH Crossroads

Sleeping. Brain you need a crossword story about to take its first steps into the real world. They grow up so fast. And Jim for Jacqueline where these come from with the life of a crush on stories like. I did too I had an opportunity to follow a trip around find out exactly where they start and how they get to this point. You want to find out a lot more work than I thought. We were all like OK we now what we're doing. We're headed to Brookfield. To. Mr. Ron Felton's knows so far. He sent me a whole bunch of pictures. About what he does there at most farm. And these pictures of been sort of lying around on my desk. And I finally got around to deciding that maybe we should do a story about it. So that's how we got the idea. I got the idea. And now we're headed up to

Wakefield to. See what. The. Stop right there. You hop out and start unloading equipment. Well we made it in Brookfield I think. With. Ron. Ron. So this is Brookfield to. Say yes. And Steve Sonicare is our camera person over there. He's got to start unloading some stuff. And we'll get ready pretty soon. Let's just wait and that it's OK. We're going to wade into

the most unusual of Yankee yards. One. Of the fringe benefits of doing crossroads stories that people feed you with sometimes. We take full advantage of. When to do something real TV like to see you make a box like that and you look through it and you can see roughly. What the camera lens sees around

you. All right. That's it. Thanks a lot for your hospitality. I hope all your friends don't bother you too much for. That. All right signing autographs. All right. So take care. Nice to meet you Maria. We'll see you filing for us it's back in the van back to the station. Come back for more fun day in the field shooting the story with Ron Fenton up there a most new fun and what I came back with are three tapes full of the stuff we shot on and it looks like this. And these are 1 1/2 inch made of tapes each one holds 30 minutes worth of material. Then I took those three tapes and i logged the I wrote down everything that's on those tapes and what order it's in and what time code number that it occurs.

As I was out in the field I tried to think about what the essence of this story is and the best I could come up with here is that this is a man who sees art in our junk and that's sort of what I want to focus on throughout the entire story. And one other thing that I got when I was out in the field was this great big mosquito bite right here. That's just a little hazard of working on these cross road stories from there what I have to do then is go to the edit booth and start digitizing and all of these sections so that we have them on on the Avid system. And I can begin editing the story together in its proper. Days. I will feel comfortable around this new editing system that we. Don't think it's going to be some.

PENCIL. All of these little titles on your Each one of those is a shock. And the more shots the more shots that I can include in the story the more I get it. That's why I have a lot feel. OK. Nine minutes. I think that does it. Nine minutes long. That's what they wanted. I didn't manage to get all of those shots in there so I'm not going to get paid as much as I thought I would turn out to be a pretty good story. Now all we have to do is pop it out of the tape machine here.

This is where it all ends up. This is what has to be rushed down here. Where the folks down there are anxiously waiting to tape and they can put it into this program so you can. Watch. There you go. I told you a lot of hard work. Tried to go out and face the real world. Be good dog. That's it for me. We're fit to tell you a little bit more about. It. Long. For its Wetherbee believe it or not.

This is New Hampshire crossroads. Of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A young man over in Dunbar New Hampshire built a glider. One of those V-shape Rogallo wing and gliding easy nowadays but rather a box kite glider like the ones that will burn a war of all right. Back in 1981 he made the glider for a total cost of 35 bucks. That young man was Terry

Sweeney and Terry Sweeney is here tonight. Back then I got some money set up for creative cinematography to make a movie. Made a movie before and my friends beat me and told me about this not that I had made this flight or that he was also here and I don't Terry because they played rock and roll together this band. No I thought they got great films so I called Terry out on a summer day. We met in an open field in Boston with a borrowed Wind-Up ball like a couple of simple answers. Tamary in the band and a lot of mother let me know and we made a little mini movie you know was a great success. The band provided the musical The film was born. We just rebuilt the University of Indiana and it had great success in Japan. He went on to become one of the pioneers in hang gliding. He's gliding

circles all over the world. Which brings us to tonight's what are some of a century past. A couple of these young 15 years old but they're still playing. Here is the movie. I was the first machine man ever made that is fully capable of supporting him yet not any heavier than he was. I get the idea for about. 10 years. So we're looking at a bunch of pictures of point is that my grandfather gave me Cochrane's picture and you really were no classes. Is this a good guess. I mean

I. Home. Leider weighs. About 33 pounds or so has an 18 foot wingspan. The wings are four feet wide spaced about four feet apart. Construction time took about a week and a half or so. And with the tubing it cost about. $40. For the first several flights and then. Let go or.

Sort of. Sit. Back and you know just. Get off the ground because he was holding the tail balance too far back. You can't really run fast enough to make the tail pick itself up. And this is a really stiff wind blowing. When you first learned to fly it. It's quite helpful to have somebody on the wings each wing if possible so that it's easy to balance. I really.

I. I see. A. I don't.

See. Maybe the American flags because. If we were the American flags. We'll probably get more control and get a better flight. And. Get a long straight level flight. It's helpful to have very smooth when flying up in order to guarantee that you want to lose when at the bottom and then you push you can feel the wind up top. But once you know this was with the you know that it's going to be up to the top. So seconds later and you can be ready for

the be ready to spring. So seconds in advance by going with the winds doing down bottom as hell. He's only for learning to fly and glider is lack of confidence of confidence causes a person not to fly. Tension in his elbows and wrists and he tends to sink back on his elbows and the glider stalls or doesn't get off the ground at all. So the only thing that it takes to learn how to fly is. A decent supply of self-confidence. The reason you don't get off the ground is usually because you thought the wind was stronger than it was. If you're looking for a window just barely get you off the ground. The stronger the stronger the wind is the less you gliding ratio is less you go down do what you want is a wind just strong enough so that you can run your self into the air.

And. When you run yourself into the air you can go a long ways if the wind is just. Barely enough to get you into the air. One last try. For luck put the American flag back on. I. I. I.

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I. I I. There's a tremendous thrill to the careers of that one and a half seconds after your feet leaves the ground. And it seems like an addictive thrill it just. Keeps you coming back for. Another try. It's similar to winning yourself in a deer or a dream about flying. You had a copy of that film at one time remember you lost the front part of it.

Yes. We replaced the front part of it. Yes. Well the last time I saw it I have a video copy that somebody made from here made. Then you've seen it recently. Yes. So you're going to have the big surprise surprise big surprise since the beginning so it was just the first time right. Right. Well just like wow. Well once we get those. Wild long early stage beginning of the rock video revolution is the first rock video guys you were unwittingly making the first rock video. What was wrong. It was I mean boy I don't know it makes me tear up a little. Yeah it sounds very nostalgic. You can

go Oh. No. We go. Down. To. Up

the whole bunch of you were all together in a commune commune with read Obert and self-harmer. Describe with that was quite an experience. And. Going. Lots of times music lots of dreams come to reality like oh like some copy that's in limbo Chertsey and dreams of flight application and then. No. No. We don't. Go

on. All. Day. When. Somebody discovered Sweeneys glide on my real here I have a collection of stuff that I've done. And one of the videographers here Kevin Tierney just running through my stuff looking for something and ran across this and said why isn't Sonnier. You guys remember making sure I mean you getting up that way. I remember you guys I rented a U-Haul trailer made me stay up all night and then he got me up. That's right. All right.

I rent a U-Haul trailer and we disassembled the glider and we put it in the U-Haul and we drove we drove up to the field and that field was we had to talk those people into it and we had to sign a paper that said if anybody died they would not be responsible. And then we got the glider out and it was all ready to go and you guys all went in the trailer and closed the door and I have no idea what's going. On.

All. One. Go down. So I gave it a call and said Can you get the guys together. And he says so. So you got together and it was like riding a bicycle

while you got your tires inflated there and I'm. Like you picked out you picked up 20 years ago that's what it's been at least 20 years since you've been together. Yes. Like you picked up is it is it like you've just kind of came down and you're in the same side only to dress differently and you're all middle class. We don't have a U-Haul parked out back and now you know you know to go that way and you found the place you play about and all that. And the last day. We stayed together until I had a big festival with Hanly song I'd go and turn Haydn Redbone Terry to leave shortly after the end of the rainbow. And there's a rainbow concert and Roger Lancefield of people all over the papers for a couple of weeks.

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