A long while ago I received from Amazon.com through the United States Postal Service, as they sometimes deliver through that delivery service, a DVD copy of the racketeering production the 1984 film "The Philadelphia Experiment." I ordered the DVD at the same time as I ordered the racketeering production the 1993 film "The Philadelphia Experiment 2." The latter production was the one I really wanted to watch and so I decided to order the first installment just because I knew I would want to later refer back to it. The first installment was fairly fresh in my mind because, as I best recall without yet looking through my notes for the specific details, I had recently watched on television the 1984 film.
I am writing about it now because just this early afternoon I have decided to watch for the first time the DVD for racketeering production the 1984 film "The Philadelphia Experiment."
I cannot now recall when I first watched that production. I might have seen it when it premiered in the theatres but I don't know. I would have been stationed at the United States Navy facility in Orlando Florida at the time of the August 1984 premiere and that was when I was attending the United States Navy Basic Electricity and Electronics School and I was doing very well in the self-paced computer-aided study environment. As I had agreed to back in the summer of 1983 for the United States Navy Advanced Electronics Field, I was studying to become certified in the Electronics Technician rating of the United States Navy. The United States Navy has a formal occupation for electronics technicians in the advanced electronics field and the title of that occupational rating is 'Electronics Technician.' In the United States Navy the shortform designation for a person qualified as Electronics Technician' is 'ET.' As best I recall there were only two ratings in the AEF and one was ET and the other was FC or Fire Controlman. There was a distinction in that ET's were not necessarily always involved with weapons systems of the United States Navy while FC's were always involved with the maintenance and operation of weapons systems of the United States Navy.
So anyway, I cannot recall precisely the first time I watched that film, although I do still vaguely recall walking off the base to watch a film in a theatre nearby that same base at that approximate time in 1984 but I cannot recall what I went to see. I also think that I might have gone off-base several times to watch a film in a theatre near the base and I feel certain I might have gone to see the racketeering production "Red Dawn" while I was stationed there in Orlando in 1984. I do not recall precisely.
A few days ago I was watching again the DVD for the racketeering production the 1984 film "2010" and I remembered specifically that I did see that film while I was stationed aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 and I remembered a time sitting in the television lounge of our berthing compartment in the ship and I remembered specifically the leading petty officer of our division, a Boatswain's Mate First Class Petty Officer" made a comment about the dialog in that film. The dialog in that film establishes that a United States Navy nuclear-powered destroyer named "Cunningham" had sunk a Soviet Union navy ship and that petty officer I worked for made a comment that I remember because he was comparing that name of that fictional ship to one of my peers whose name was the same. I thought about that again recently because of an observation I made a while back where I was wondering if it was possible that while out to sea, as I think we were when watching a ship-intercircuit broadcast of that film "2010," we would have first-run films available to us so soon after the production premiered in the theatres. So here was a case of a film that premiered in December 1984 and I was watching it on the ship and that must have been in 1985 and possibly during the summer of 1985.
I cannot recall precisely when I first watched "The Philadelphia Experiment" but as anyone familiar with Charleston South Carolina can tell you, as I became familiar during the very early months of 1985, the filming location for that film, is not Philadelphia, but is instead the civilian commercial enterprise called Patriot's Point. That is a civilian commercial enterprise set around the Charleston Harbor and I often saw that setting because any United States Navy ship underway to or from the United States Navy base that used to be in Charleston would have to pass through that area. I remember one time in the second half of 1985 a buddy of mine that I worked with on the USS Taylor FFG 50 suggested I drive over there and tour the museum ship's with him and his wife. I remember that timeframe because I was driving that 1978 Ford Explorer pickup I had and he and his wife drove behind me over there. The setting is familiar because anybody on a United States Navy ship going to and from the navy facility has to go under that bridge, which I understand has been replaced and no longer exists.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2006 10:01:46 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 25, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I crashed my '67 red Ford one day during an activity we called a fox hunt, which isn't very much like the British activity, or so I guess, I've never seen the British version. My passenger in the truck, whom I don't believe is a real person, was Donald Gene Chauncy, a family friend. I was a field judge in the exercise, working to get to the location where the dogs crossed a road so I could write down their numbers and score them on various attributes of the chase. I was driving too fast down a gravel road, the truck started fish-tailing, and I hit a stump that flipped the truck upside down. I can still remember seeing Donald Gene flopping around as the truck flipped. I had a box of shotgun shells on the dashboard although we didn't actually shot at the foxes. Then I'm trying to get out and there is gasoline pouring out next to me
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:42 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 26, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
the shocks failed on my blue truck and someone commented later he thought I was going to bounce off the road because the chassis was shaking so much from any pothole I hit. Another time something went wrong with the brakes and they were screeching incredibly loudly. I can think of a lot of things like that happening.
There was that dialog with Donald Gene after I wrecked my Ford. I said: You all right? He said: Yeah, you all right? Yeah, I said. Let's get the hell out of here! I think his door opened but I had to crawl through the window because mine wouldn't open and gas was pouring out next to me.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day and Defense Spending
May 18, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Not too long ago one of our Ambassadors visited an American armored cavalry regiment stationed on the NATO line in Germany. As he returned to his helicopter, he was followed by a young 19-year-old trooper. The trooper asked him if he could get a message to the President. Well, the Ambassador said that sometimes getting messages to the President was part of his job. And the young trooper then said, "Will you tell him we're proud to be here, and we ain't scared of nothin."
Well, not long ago the Ambassador was in Washington and told me the sequel to that incident. I'd repeated a story in a talk that was carried on our Voice of America radio program, and there in that base in Germany the young trooper heard the broadcast and knew that I'd received his message. His commanding officer said that he ran down the company street yelling: "The system works! The system works!"
Well, the system does work, but not just because Ambassadors can get messages from a 19-year-old trooper to the President. Our system—this way of life we call democracy and freedom—really works because of the dedicated Americans like that GI in Germany, who've always been willing to defend our way of life from foreign aggressors—from those who do not love freedom and seek to destroy it.
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040309-N-4374S-018 At sea aboard USS Taylor (FFG 50) Mar. 9, 2004 - A landing signal enlisted (LSE) assigned to the guided missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50) signals an HH-60H Seahawk assigned to the “Red Lions” of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron One Five (HS-15) for a landing.
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg. (RELEASED)
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040309-N-4374S-018
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1984 film "The Philadelphia Experiment" DVD video: [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
00:15:13
Jim Parker: What's going on here?
David Herdeg: Ow!
Jim Parker: What is it?
David Herdeg: Shut the damn thing - shut it down! Ow!
Jim Parker: Ow!
David Herdeg: Jimmy! You all right?
Jim Parker: I'm okay!
David Herdeg: Let's get out of here! Let's get the hell out of here!
Eldridge crew: [ mass panic and chaos ]
David Herdeg: Come on! Get up! Aah!
Jim Parker: Aah! Hey.
David Herdeg: Yeah.
Jim Parker: What is this? What's going on?
David Herdeg: I don't know. What do you see right now?
Jim Parker: Stars, moon. It's night!
David Herdeg: Did you see a ship? I mean, did - do you see a ship, the town?
Jim Parker: Yeah. Yeah, it was spinning around. What's going on here?
David Herdeg: What about your hand?
Jim Parker: Looks okay now, there's nothing wrong with it. What the hell is it?
David Herdeg: I don't know. What is that?
Jim Parker: Ow!
David Herdeg: What happened?
Jim Parker: It's coming back again!
David Herdeg: Run! Come on! Run, Jimmy run!
Jim Parker: [ screaming ]
David Herdeg: Jimmy, let go of it! Let go, Jimmy! We got to get out of here! Come on! Run!
[ helicopter explodes mid-air ]
David Herdeg: We got to get out of here! Come on! Run! You all right?
Jim Parker: Yeah, I'm okay.
David Herdeg: It's the last one.
Jim Parker: Thanks.
David Herdeg: You have any more brilliant ideas?
Jim Parker: Yeah. We're still in Philadelphia. This is all part of the experiment. They did something to our minds.
David Herdeg: There's no desert in Philly.
Jim Parker: Maybe all this isn't real. Maybe it's a hallucination. They could have hypnotized us. You know they do that to people, you know.
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Memorable quotes for
The Omega Man (1971)
[first lines]
[the last man on earth wrecks his car]
Robert Neville: There's never a cop around when you need one.
