”THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE” 1971 MOTORCYCLE JOURNEY ACROSS SAHARA DESERT DOCUMENTARY FILM 69555

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This Christian film from 1972, presented by the Moody Institute of Science, tells the story of Dick Ewing, who became one of the first men to cross the vast expanse of the Sahara desert on a motorcycle and survive. The film is hosted by Dr. Irwin and produced by the Moody Bible Institute. Dick Ewing is an extreme sports enthusiast, who gathered an expedition crew to travel on motorcycles across the Sahara Desert. Multiple troubles and accidents with miraculous solutions lead to Ewing’s conversion from antagonistic towards religion to a Christian. The film’s title “The Ultimate Adventure” refers to finding Christ as the ultimate adventure. “The Ultimate Adventure” title banner (00:12). Two men are skydiving (00:25). A man is scuba-diving amongst streams of fish (00:57). A man is ski jumping with an audience (01:13). Surfing on big waves (01:25). Speed boating (01:41). A flying hot air balloon (01:50). A motocross race (02:01). A sidecar motorcycle race (02:55). Other motorcycle races (03:02). In a studio, hosts Dr. Irwin and Dick Ewing speaks about motorcycling and Ewing’s previous adventures (03:54). Dick Ewing scuba-diving as an underwater photographer (04:27), working as a hunting guide (04:32), a rock climber (04:35), and kayaking down the Nile River (04:40). An add places in a Seattle newspaper by Ewing searching for crew for a Sahara Desert expedition (05:05). Photos of the four men selected by Ewing for the expedition (05:26). Scenes from Casablanca, Morocco (06:08). A horse carriage arrives with a delivery of the crew’s motorcycles (06:29). A photograph of their load packed into a motorcycle (06:54). The crew begins their expedition by driving on their motorcycles up mountain roads (07:04). A Moroccan village market (07:25). A local doctor attends to a crewmembers broken thumb (07:36). Scenes from the village market (07:44). Their journey continues on desert highways (08:14). Birds-eye views of the Atlas Mountains (08:20). They arrive to the Sahara Desert and motorcycle through miles of desert (08:31). The crew sets up camp for the night (09:15). The loose sand presents a challenge for driving the motorcycle (09:38). Crew members fix their worn-down tires due to the burning temperatures of the sand (10:14). A skeleton laying in the sand (10:20). Dr. Irwin and Ewing speaking from the studio (10:25). The crew driving through more of the Sahara Desert in Algeria (11:01). They make a stop after breaking their container was their gas-supply (11:39). Ewing speaks about the threatening situation in the studio (12:00). An Algerian army fort (in the desert (12:33). Two crew members had left the expedition, and the three remaining continued their journey through the Sahara (12:53). They arrive to an oasis in Algeria (13:13). A photograph of two of the crew members and the Algerian Tourist representative (13:18). They have a tea-ceremony with locals in the oasis (13:30). They continue their journey and meet a camel caravan (13:54) and continue through more desert wasteland (14:15). Ewing continues to speak about an accident, where they lost their water supply on their expedition in the studio (14:38). He demonstrates the situation by pointing on a map of North Africa (15:05). They find a nearby well (16:43). A sunset in the desert (17:14). An illustrated map of their journey starting from Casablanca to a large oasis by In Salah (17:24). The crew members rest for days in In Salah (17:47). Ewing speaks to Dr. about religiosity in the studio (18:14). They continue their journey and Ewing got injured in an accident (19:20). Ewing explains to Dr. how the life-threatening situation resulted in him converting to Christianity, and how a miracle-truck brought him to a dispensary for treatment (21:11). An oasis (22:55). Dr. introduced two guest in the studio; two Christian missionaries (23:04). They tell the story of how they’d met the expedition crew in the Sahara Oasis shortly after Ewing’s accident and his religiosity (23:18). A sunset over the Sahara Desert (26:50). Ewing and the two remaining crew members continue their expedition across the Sahara (26:59). “The End” written on screen (28:11). Interested in learning more? Dick Ewing also wrote a book about this experience titled, “The Adventures of the Iron Camels“. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit