Roaring Glory Warbirds, Vol. 3: Vought F4U Corsair

Roaring Glory Warbirds, Vol. 3: Vought F4U Corsair

Roaring Glory Warbirds, Vol. 3: Vought F4U Corsair
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Brand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.

DVD Reviews of Roaring Glory Warbirds, Vol. 3: Vought F4U Corsair

DVD Review: Great DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent video on the F4U Corsair. Great aerial shots and lots of great information. Step by step startup procedures and lots of information on flying this great airplane.

DVD Review: Wish all 10 videos were on DVD and available
Summary: 5 Stars

I have the whole Roaring Glory series on VHS and they are excelent as far as I am concerned. The dramitized part is not that bad. It at least tells the story of the actual plane and pilot in the war. The special effects are not bad either. If the whole set comes out on DVD, I'll get it. I can sell the VHS on Ebay or keep it anyway. It give you an idea of what it's like to fly the plane and the flight scens are very well done. I recommend it for anyonw who is into aviation history.

DVD Review: Just fair--and disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars

The whole Roaring Glory series is only fair. While the modern-day, restored aircraft footage is pretty good, the audio quality is awful. At times the ambient engine noise is so loud that you have difficulty understanding the pilot's words as he's describing a sequence. That's just plain poor audio engineering.

The series can be rented from Netflix. I was truly disappointed in all of these titles.

DVD Review: A Pleasant Surprise!
Summary: 4 Stars

I'm not sure what I expected when I bought this... probably something along the lines of what you see on the `Wings' network - lots of scratchy footage of old planes with monotonous narration of specifications. But that's not at all the approach that this video takes. This is my first `Roaring Glory Warbirds' disc, but I ordered two more immediately after seeing it.

The roughly hour-long main program begins with our pilot-narrator standing before the Corsair. He takes us on a brief tour of the outside plane as he performs a pre-flight check of all of the important `parts,' and this alone was great! You get a close-up view of all of these details while a skilled pilot explains what he's looking for and why. Then he jumps in, gives us a tour of all of the controls, and takes the plane up!

It's wonderful seeing this classic machine actually in the air, not in a Hollywood film or old newsreel footage. The picture is quite sharp; the Dolby sound is wonderfully vibrant and great for that prop-engine sound. As the pilot does maneuvers with the F4U, he explains everything he's doing, eventually landing it.

The program then switches to a dramatization of a young pilot training for and then flying an F4U in battle. This was modestly but nicely done, too, and informative. It was interesting, for instance, to hear how flight manuals for these planes were so scarce that if a pilot could get his hands on one he would hoard it!

Extras on the disc include an actual F4U training film, which ran about half an hour. This was really interesting, too, on many levels: it explained aspects of the plane and how it should be flown in detail, and is also a time capsule of what kinds of training pilots received.

Other extras include a still photo gallery and pages from a Corsair flight manual reproduced on-screen, but this is the weaker part of the disc. This could have been much better if the disc's logo wasn't plastered across the top third of the screen, obscuring the images - I'm not sure what they were thinking here. Even better, I would love to have seen some of these diagrams reproduced in print form and included as an insert with the disc, though I realize that this would have added to the cost of the disc.

More information about the F4U's place in WWII warfare would have been appreciated, too. I would have given an extra star for this. As it is, this disc is more of a `here is the plane' presentation, with the added dramatization about the pilots.

I really wish they could add some British, German, and perhaps even Russian planes to this series, though I realize that the lack of availability of these planes may make this nearly impossible.


DVD Review: Vought F4U Corsair DVD
Summary: 3 Stars

This is not a bad DVD, but it hardly earns 5 stars. The narration by Steve Hinton is good; but you can tell his forte is flying not narrating. He does explain the preflight and technical aspect of the Corsair adequately. The tale of the adventures of USMC pilot Verne Salisbury looks like it was filmed by amateurs. The tan tinting attempts to make the film look old, but it fails miserably. There are some excellent flying sequences of a museum piece Corsair in a modern setting. However if you are seeking a movie to explain the mission of the F4U Vaught Corsair during WWII you will find this DVD inconclusive. There are a few quick shots of historic footage; but the story is somewhat sketchy. While this film has some endearing points, it does lack much in storyline.

Description of Roaring Glory Warbirds, Vol. 3: Vought F4U Corsair

Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 03/08/2005 Run time: 105 minutes

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