Just watched a fascinating film called Around Cape Horn, filmed in 1929. It's footage taken by a sailor on a commercial sailing ship as it goes around the Horn, narrated by him decades later. It's only 40 minutes, and has some absolutely incredible shots.
Apparently Peter Weir used it as a reference while shooting Master and Commander.
Wait wait wait what. Ok this discription criminally undersells this video. I read the discription and thought "oh hey that sounds awesome and super cool! Video from 1929? Taken on a BOAT? wow incredible!" I start watching. Video: [shows a guy playing with antique (in 1929) bicycles he found in his attic] me: "oh ok, not what I was expecting but this is neat--ooh, a highwheel bike!" [Dude crashes bike spectacularly] video: [shows man climbing telephone pole] narration: "I was training for going to sea, this was the closest I could find to a mast for practice...." (Me: "yes makes sense") [pole starts swaying, man makes it sway more on purpose] "...this pole was rotten at the bottom so it sways well, but it won't fall over because the wires hold it up!" [Man is climbing onto the top of the pole] me: " wait WHAT" video: [shows man doing a headstand on top of the pole while HANGING ONTO THE WIRES] "I wanted to make sure nothing about climbing the rigging would be scary..."
I am literally a minute and a half into this video and the first thirty seconds we're opening credits. This man is off the wall
a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.
Pen and wash drawing of a giant octopus, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. Pierre Dénys de Montfort ~ ca.1802
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