Mayday - Tugs of War January 30, 2007

Time: 4:00pm and 7:30pm

Price: Free Admission

Contact: Laddie Kumelos | laddiekumelos@msn.com | 661 871-0146
The Bakersfield Adult School's Open Forum Travel Series presents :

Robin William's Mayday! Tugs of War

Free Performaces start at 4pm and 7:30 pm at Harvey Auditorium

Meet the men; survivor and witness accounts, first-hand experiences, archival footage of major operations, oral histories and hair-raising achievements of the rescue tugmen!

A film about Deep Sea Rescue Tugs of WWII and the men who crewed them! They would rush to stricken ships; leap aboard with their pumps and hoses even though the battleships and cruisers and cargo vessels could blow up at any moment. They saved billions of dollars worth of cargo and countless valuable ships and human lives. Freezing winds and violent seas of the North Atlantic was their work place. Filmed in Penzance, Land’s End, Kingston on Hull, Dover, Falmouth, Trebah, Arromanche, Omaha Beach, Toronto, Baltimore, Portland and Astoria, Oregon, the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and the Dutch town of Maassluis. Archival footage of German submarine attacks, the Normandy invasion and the invasion of Iwo Jima.
90 minutes of fascinating information and unbelievable action on the deep sea. The media ignored the rescue tug men for over 63 years.
MAYDAY is a spoken history by the men who lived it. Their stories were never told…until now.
Featuring captured Nazi film sequences and exciting and breath taking rescues of the Dover Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard as well as the story of the Columbia River Bar Pilots.
Robin D. Williams is acclaimed as one of the top travel filmmakers of America today and a most dynamic public speaker. His film programs have been entertaining audiences in the United States and Canada since 1967 and he has been a regular on the National Geographic Society’s Film Lecture Series since 1972. He is noted for his effervescent stage presence and clarity of voice.
He has sailed the English Channel and the French Canal System, traced The Roman Empire throughout the Mediterranean Sea on a converted Scottish trawler, tracked St. Paul’s journeys through Asia, followed Christopher Columbus from Genoa to the New World, skillfully recreated Mozart’s trip through Italy, replicated Lindbergh’s flight to Paris, retraced Lewis & Clark from their boyhood homes in Virginia to the mouth of the Columbia River, and filmed the story of St. John and the Seven Churches. He methodically searched throughout Turkey and unveiled dozens of Biblical Treasures.

For over 30 years, this filmmaker has brought classic documentaries to theaters and auditoriums across America.

From a journey that doubled the size of a nation (Lewis & Clark), to a flight that changed the world forever (Lindbergh’s Flight to Paris), to the spreading of Christianity by Saul of Tarsus, Robin D. Williams is a filmmaker who searches for the exact locations where great people made their mark in history.

Fill your mind with these epic stories as they are told to you by Robin Williams himself.

Official Website: http://www.maydaytugsofwar.com