Catch-22 (1970) - B-25 Mitchell take-offs - HD

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For me is this the best "take off" scene than any other war film has. They used 18 original B-25's, 17 flyable. Since WW2 this was the biggest B-25 'meeting'. Enjoy!
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@thebuzzard577 7 лет назад

I am 95 and I flew B-25's in WWII. This scene from Catch 22 always gets me goosebumps in spades. Major USAF retired.

@mrs3533 6 лет назад

WELL DONE JACK WELL DONE !

@stephenhemmert4080 6 лет назад

A job well done Mr. Northrup. My father, Harold Hemmert, was an engineer gunner on B-25's in Italy. He was with the 321st Bomb Group, 446th Squadron. He flew there January 1945 to the end of the war. His primary crew assignment was on "My Georgia Peach," tail number 43-3989. His Bob Wing has a website. Many of his missions are annotated on the site. I've been able to locate the details of 31 of his missions, which were flown as an engineer gunner on fifteen different planes. I was able to sit in the co-pilot seat of a B-25J several years ago at the Olympia, WA airport for a donation of $5. Talk about cramped seating. It never occurred to me until sitting in that B-25 the top turret was so confining. Much narrower than the width of the fuselage. Again, Mr. Northrup, a job well done.

@orangelion03 5 лет назад

@@stephenhemmert4080 Have you read Tom Cleaver's "The Bridgebusters"? Highly recommended. www.amazon.com/Bridgebusters-True-Story-Catch-22-Bomb/dp/1621574881

@mrs3533 5 лет назад

Jack Northrup I hear they are making a remake of catch-22 with George Clooney ?

@reneebreckler4015 5 лет назад

Jack Northrup thank you for your service they have a remake of the movie catch 22

@Untouchable1932 8 лет назад

Mike Nichols originally wanted 36 of these bombers to make up a full squadron but had to settle for 18 for budgetary reasons. This is aviation porn!

@chrislondo2683 4 месяца назад

He could’ve went with 32 which was the same amount for the Heinkel used in the Battle of Britain.

@lostcreek1985 5 лет назад

This was an extremely dangerous stunt and a lot of the pilots didn't want to do it. Taking off English scramble style off a runway designed for single aircraft is nuts. Watch the following B25 trying to control the propwash. If any of those planes lost an engine they were goners. Also keep in mind, a lot of the planes were not in great condition. At least one has a noticeable trail of smoke from his starboard engine. I would loved to be in the morning briefing before this shot. I'm sure the director was not popular, but they did it.

@A65Driver 4 года назад

One of the bombers does a "crab" style into the wind on liftoff but I think this was done for dramatic purposes - it certainly looks freaky. Watch one of the later pilots seamlessly perform a "slip" style movement into the wind - nowhere near as dramatic but certainly more finesse.

@A65Driver 4 года назад

Also, those puffs of white/blue smoke from one side or the other - totally normal for a big radial engine.. oil would gravitate toward the lower cylinders and get forced out during the cyclical run of the cylinders.. nothing to get panties in a wad over..

@A65Driver 4 года назад

A little black smoke from one engine or another is just a bit of rich mixture on that engine

@cgross82 7 лет назад

Ah, those were the days before CGI!

@tmrezzek5728 6 лет назад

Love the shot beginning at 1:00. Cinematographer David Watkin placed the camera at the opposite end of the runway and used a long lens and the result is amazing--the planes just seem to float past the tower. This scene and the later scene when Milo has the airfield bombed should have gotten Watkin an Academy Award nomination.

@MBDmediaman 10 лет назад

One of my favorite movies by the late great director, Mike Nichols, who died at 83. I read the Heller novel in 1962, just after arriving at my army duty station at a chopper base near Frankfurt, W. Germany. Guaymas, Mexico, on the western shore was where the movie was filmed. Some of the B-25s were flown by pilots who flew them in '44-'45. 25 yrs. after VE and VJ days. Years ago the LA Times had a photo of the man who designed and put the B25s into production showing him reaching up to a prop blade.

@R4nd0m4Pwnage 10 лет назад

Wauw, so WW2 pilot veterans flew them again in this movie? Did not know that. Awesome.

@TS-ef2gv 2 года назад

Fortunately there are many B-25s still flying. I was lucky enough to attend the B-25 fly-in at Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio, 2012, for the 70th anniversary of Doolittle's Raid. Around 20 B-25s attended the event along with other WW2 aircraft, with lots of flying demos over a several day period. There were formations of B-25s flying over Central Ohio for several days during that event. In interested, there are at least a couple of dozen videos from that event posted here on YT.

@13litzkrieg65 4 года назад

My first warbird flight was in a B-25 named Devil Dog. wonderful experience!

@bigroy38 4 года назад

Devil Dog will rattle your teeth!

@13litzkrieg65 4 года назад

@@bigroy38 I have partials so it wasnt that bad lol

@Bluenose352 8 лет назад

What's nice is, quite a few of the B-25s that flew in the movie, still fly today.

@Kiryu-yf1mf 8 лет назад

even In the Pearl Harbor movie when they did the Doolittle raid I love how they took off

@Bluenose352 8 лет назад

+Kiryu 1095 One of those rare moments in history of B-25s taking off of a carrier deck. One of three or four times, including the actual Doolittle Raid, in history.

@Kiryu-yf1mf 8 лет назад

+Bluenose352 and they all did it well which is something you don't see or even seen it happen

@douglaslorin739 5 лет назад

This movie is the reason why we still have B-25s flying today.

@jaberie308 7 лет назад

Delicious! Watch them crab right upon wheels up because of crosswind from starboard on takeoff. This is a rich scene with great field and depth of view. You could almost mistake this for 70mm print, like a voyage on the sand in Lawrence of Arabia.

@handen Месяц назад

When the sun rises above the mountain right before this scene (unfortunately it’s not in this video), you can see that the lens flare halo around the sun is stretched horizontally by about 2x what it is vertically. This is a dead tell that indicates it was filmed in Super 35mm. Basically, a special lens on the camera shrinks the frame in half horizontally to fit 70mm-worth of picture onto 35mm film stock, which is then corrected for in post-production by stretching the horizontal axis back out by 2x, giving the “illusion” of having been filmed in 70mm. Unfortunately this has the side-effect of screwing with lens flare and other lighting effects like bokeh. I just watched the film for the first time yesterday and noticed this straight away.