The White Diamond | Werner Herzog's Mini Zeppelin | Full Documentary

Herzog could make a thrilling documentary about the shopping list...😁

[@marianmichalski]

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[@SrD1D0]

In the thick, melancholy hum of existence, the supermarket lies before us-an altar to the mundane and the extraordinary. Within its fluorescent labyrinth, humanity’s desires are laid bare, reduced to lists scrawled on scraps of paper or whispered into the void of a mobile phone. “Eggs,” it says, a word so small, yet teeming with the fragile promise of sustenance and fragility of life. “Milk,” an echo of pastoral fields now siphoned into sterile cartons, its journey obscured, its origin forgotten. “Bread,” the primordial sustenance, now sliced and bagged, its soul seemingly diminished but ever-present. We do not merely shop. We navigate a microcosm of dreams, failures, and fleeting joys. Here, in this temple of abundance, each item is a cipher, a key to understanding the labyrinth of human need. And yet, as we clutch our lists and push our carts, are we not all wanderers, adrift in a sea of plenty, yet haunted by a nameless hunger? (Fade to a wide shot of the supermarket, its aisles stretching endlessly into the fluorescent void.)

[@Jazztice4me]

That´s a great description of Herzog's enormous creativity and capabilities! Amazing character.

[@jeffdavis7356]

“I cannot hear what you say, through the thunder that you are.” My goodness.

[@GeorgeTennesseeWiseman]

Werner has done it again! Amazing! It made me feel like l have felt watching "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" taken to a mystical place and in awe. Just beautiful.

[@59jaguar]

My brain was thirsting for this film. Thank you Werner herzog !

[@saginawdan]

My exact thoughts.

[@Nagavisions]

Thank You!!! Such a great story. Wonder, Pain, Loss, Discovery, Success… All elements in their right places.

[@Jazztice4me]

The image of the waterdrop from the leaf, and the waterfall seen through it, is just Herzog´s visual masterpiece.

[@peterm6861]

Thanks for sharing these beautyful and fascinating moments... Just forgive all haters and winers , they simply can't understand the things in life that do matter. Keep following your dreams man!

[@RevIsnot]

mark anthony is the man!

[@RobertoPoncebk]

Right, he deserves a film all for himself🎉

[@rafi1234321]

And his rooster, Red!

[@saginawdan]

The true star of the show. 😊

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Absolutely breathtaking. When I was a kid we lived in Akron Ohio and the Cuyahoga River had a giant waterfall that we would go behind . This area was called The Gorge . For thousands of years the Lenne Lenape (Delaware) Indians called it home . Along with the beautiful transit called the Portage Path. When behind the waterfall the world on the other side had no time to define . It was fluid and wide open , like a passage through time or without time rather . The falls reverses direction if you stare long enough , it absolutely gorgeous . I encourage anyone who can to visit the falls reversed .

[@samsmith1580]

Werner found another Fitzcaraldo..

[@burnadet1]

Thanks Werner! A warm greeting to Mark Antony Yhap and of course Graham Dorrington. May all of Graham’s dreams of flying the canopy be realized. What a gorgeous piece!

[@higamerXD]

This was an incredible video, i really hope airships slowly become more and more commonplace as our technology allows us to make them truly great. This was a massive milestone in small dirigible airschips. I hope it will be remembered as the start of something greater then just itself.

Thank you, and thank you Werner Herzog :)

[@dlphinzwlazerz978]

I truly appreciate you posting this! Marc Anthony is such a Bright Soul, I hope he reconnected with his family after this program.

[@sleethmitchell]

the airship crawling through the cloud bank, scientists and mystics in the jungle with music. what's not to like? i'm crazy again.

[@jackiwannapaint]

yes peace and quiet--good idea!

[@ChristopherJGallagher]

Marc Anthony is a natural poet. His way of using language paints pictures in the air. Beautiful

[@luminousfractal420]

i love how theres always one stubborn man being helpful with his bike 😂 im 46 atm and have tinnitus from ear damage from playing with explosives as a kid. dont do it kids, life has a way of making it go wrong. can still see that one stray spark from the gunpowder trail going up and landing down perfectly in the center of the bangy bit 😂 what were the chances...😅

[@B.Cote39]

sooooo well done!!!thank you

[@davidholmgren659]

Wonderful footage of Latham's channel attempt. Great video.

[@childrensworkshops]

Magnificent!

[@fiveblue100]

Absolutely wonderful.

[@jackries6575]

I'm glad I found this rare jam. I've seen most of stuff basically so this feels good. And it's about flight wow

[@allenschmitz9644]

@@jackries6575 gem

[@robertmier2217]

Mad dogs, Englishmen, and Werner bloody Herzog Thanks

[@nickjunes]

Imagine all the places in nature we could finally see if we had these.

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

So called civilized man has lost touch with nature & it's good to see & feel from those who haven't.❤

[@luminousfractal420]

confrontation of our nature, some find it easier to ignore it. we are animals.

[@karma133]

Absolutely fantastic- thanks for upload

[@marianmichalski]

Whatever Herzog touches turns into gold❤

[@junebugjunebug4492]

Thats crazy cool music 👍👍

[@MrGoZiva]

Sardinian polyphonic chants

[@davidcollin1436]

ERIC SPITZER MARLIN

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Marc Anthony seems like a very cool guy~

[@hagvaktok]

Very interesting about the Swifts!

[@Cyrvs71]

This calibre of comedy is landmark, all the more so given the dubious intelligence displayed so flagrantly by our enthusiastic commenters herein.

[@peterm6861]

It hurts me to see you just can't grasp the importance of following a dream...

[@nickjunes]

It’s sad it seems you’ve completely misjudged your own intelligence and place in the world for your entire life.

[@thruknobulaxii2020]

I’m not sure precisely what kind of endeavour that man’s temperament would be suited to. But control of an aircraft ain’t it! There’s nothing wrong with being a dreamer. But don’t ever bet your life on one.

[@brianmgrim]

@thruknobulaxii2020: I’d rather have 10 thousand of these guys over my head that one 433 long ton 747 hurtling towards me. I’m glad he didn’t let critics squash his dream.

[@thruknobulaxii2020]

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[@alvarojosetasconospina3583]

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[@alvarojosetasconospina3583]

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now i manna make documentary, thanks wh

[@boweeks888]

Do it champ 💪

[@diggumsmack2]

In 2004, when this was filmed, helium was not cheap but affordable. In 2024 it's astronomicaly priced. Roughly 10x the price now.

[@kaseylowpianotuner1239]

I notice the motor is the legendary Astro Cobalt !!

[@actcityottawa]

According to IMDB this was edited in 2004. Would have been nice to give the viewer some more background on this project. Kman

[@iplaymytele]

Very cool….👍🏻 As I understand this nice powered balloon, is actually, not a zeppelin…. It is a durable , it is not a rigid frame or even a semi rigid…! It would be classified as a blimp…

[@leon-r5z2w]

That's why they put a bulbous bow on ships cuts drag and saves fuel, not sure it makes them more maneuverable

[@LARRYSUSAN]

how the hell did they get that shot of the iguana does anyone know?

[@alanpods2]

I’m guessing probably with a wide angle macro lens, held very close to the iguana and some fill in lighting

[@smegheadGOAT]

Mark Anthony is such a lovely guy he would be well placed as a eco tourist wild camping host

[@dcorbin5779]

We all know how much you love the jungle.

[@robertballard8833]

I thought this was a Mocumentary - when it got to the scientist who blew his fingers off and almost died, then straps hmiself directly to a Jet engine lol. Almost Monty python, - I kept looking for Fred Armisen - Documentary NOW. In all, Art reflects life - this has absurd, sad, and joyful moments.

[@nickjunes]

Yeah it was a silly scene but he didn’t get his PhD in aerospace by accident. I’m sure it’s part of how he entertains his student coupled with some selective editing.

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Jet engine as lower leg incinerator.

[@MrTylerStricker]

Just imagine how much different the tone of this documentary would be if it had been made 40 or 30 years earlier...they most certainly wouldn't be letting the locals go up in the balloon...

[@soldtobediers]

1:20:20 ''Dwath is that dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.'' ~Saul Bellow

[@Americal1970]

I see you went through "the" change. The door you will never go back through.

[@vaughnt742]

Can anyone tell me who’s doing the singing?

[@richardh8082]

Try with Shazam music app

[@RussMcClay]

I feel like I'm watching Grizzly Man. And the Rastafarian reclining on the transparent pillow chair smoking a cigarette is defintely tripping on something as he comes up with the title for this film.

[@rafi1234321]

Life is the ultimate trip

[@SSimonMr]

... is that amorante's music?

[@AidanKelly-h3f]

These things are so cool the way they just float along.. I'd be worried about some flock of angry birds pecking holes in the thing though

[@wellbehaveddogs7694]

Herzog does like particularly scrapey violins

[@fitmesslife]

His voice is similar to them.

[@yvesbajulaz]

mind buggling, how come you were not doing ground run of all the engines, and testing their thrust and proper direction... like methodically... way too much emotions and mystic... flying engineering is pretty cut and dry. The whole thing has a psychedelic trip vibe to it...

[@SnakebitSTI]

If you're methodical and detail oriented, you probably give up on airships before trying to build one. Too many case studies on why an airplane or ultralight or glider is a better idea.

[@nickjunes]

@@SnakebitSTIyou can’t fly an ultralight for days at a time hovering right over trees in the rain forest. They have completely different purposes.

[@SnakebitSTI]

@@nickjunes you can't fly a tiny blimp for days at a time either. Unless by "fly" you mean getting dragged around by the wind while you run out of water and snacks. Did you even watch the video? Look at the size of that thing. That's not fit for long duration flights. There's practically no storage, you're stuck sitting in place the whole time, and those are some energy hungry motors backed by not that much in the way of batteries. Big airships can do it, but the weather has to be agreeable, and they're major engineering challenges which multiple leading nations throw their resources into developing in the early 1900s - Ultimately, they all failed, with hundreds of lives lost in the process.

[@nickjunes]

@@SnakebitSTI Yes you can. You can tether to a tree or you can fly up high and drift. With solar panels you could probably even recharge your motors and fly indefinitely. Also this video was made 20 years ago by a guy who basically designed this thing solo. An actually company could do so much better. A hybrid version that could change shape and buoyancy would be the ultimate. Don't take it out on other people because you lack imagination.

[@SnakebitSTI]

@@nickjunes actual companies tried, with lots of government money to throw around on R&D. They mostly gave up in favor of airplanes back in the 1930s, and lighter than air craft occupied ever smaller niches in the decades that followed. Technological advancements since then have made heavier than air craft even more advantageous over lighter than air craft. Airships are really cool, and they certainly spark the imagination. That makes them great for fiction. In the real world, aircraft with tons and tons of surface area just aren't a winner.

[@rafi1234321]

1:08:10 the payoff, and its beautiful in typical Herzog fashion

[@aqueousone]

58:00 little plastic champagne glasses. Just what that river needs.

[@fergal2424]

Damn, now you could just buy a few hundred dollar drone and do all the "Canopy Prospecting" you like.

[@fitmesslife]

Like a petuland child, i was let down, almost angry, at his decision to not show his footage of the mystery cave. I ascribed civilized phrases in my mind, such as " for the benefit of knowledge/ science/ human endeavor"...and so on. But his decision was right.

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

Fly to Antarctica and keep on going. Find where it ends and what wonders lay across this level realm.

[@nickjunes]

The comments here are awful. Small airships are the future. Most of the planet is not covered by roads and having to build roads everywhere is wasteful. We need hybrid airships, flying RVs and flying cruise ships. It’s not about speed. It’s about going places you could never go otherwise and enjoying the journey.

[@Herzeleydt_Diesentrueb]

10:30 What do we hear here ? please engighten me ...

[@DMLand]

According to Shazam, it is "A Una Rosa" by Ernst Reijseger, Mola Lylla, and Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, from Requiem for a Dying Planet, which features a photo of the White Diamond on the cover. Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei is the vocal ensemble. I will definitely want to hear more from them.

[@DMLand]

At 1:26:55, it is credited as "Rosa," and there's more info about those astonishing voices.

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

What a Heath Robinsenesque contraption. Straight out of a Jules Verne novel.

[@Cranky301]

Gold and silver are apparently useless to us. Considering this film was likely shot using silver based film………exploring the canopy? Ever heard of a ladder? Another pointless project based on one man’s personal journey. What Hertzog manages to capture is the pointlessness and he does so very well.

[@davidcollin1436]

Most is digital capture converted to film for certain film festivals using modified 35mm camera bodies and high rez monitors frame by frame

[@cgmach9395]

A ladder will give you a single static vantage from the height of a single tree at max, which wasn't even the point of the airship to begin with. The airship gives them the freedom to explore the landscape without having to suffer through the jungle thicket. Now we have drones of course, which would make it pointless today, but that is what they had to work with back then.

[@MattyRouter]

I'm a pilot and you do not bla bla bla the preflight check list,this guy is a disaster,those engines/propellers look like toys😂😂😂 46:39 aha that guy is right that tell him off.

[@KentStrock]

That Werner is doing a lot of leg pulling is evidenced by the inclusion the Chicken. Werner hates chickens but has them in almost every film. This is Fitz aqnd Aquire and Timothy treadwell. The Iguana is from The Bad Luietent an gorrillas attacking 'Dieter(who needs to fly) is reference to Treadwell and Bears...it is a big hoodwink

[@IlyaFitzpatrick]

23:20 Kaspar Hauser likes this

[@allenschmitz9644]

A study in Duefuss fying.😅

[@nickjunes]

“Duefuss” comment

[@diggumsmack2]

50:51 The person that decided to add the stupid growling howling noise in this segment really fudged up a beautiful scene.

[@DMLand]

I think you will find that "the person" is Wernor Herzog and/or the film's composer, Ernst Reijseger.

[@davidcollin1436]

Sounds of the waterfall, complain to nature

[@diggumsmack2]

​@@davidcollin1436Good one! 🤪😜😂 *Now go back to bed*

[@NatureWalden]

Werner is the only german to be blessed by a jungle. Impossible.

[@TheeMikeForce]

30:57 High AF

[@GLOBAL-STRUGGLE]

May mark Anthony find hes family God willing

[@the-trusteeship]

Most exit strategies provide only one plan to the mother. After spending the life we were given to solve the problems we began with, it would be really nice to have a new life with the same roots; the same ship with new wings. Unfortunately, out of the myriad options mother earth has, only one can take root again. Life generates so many options so fast, even with our high speed networks tethering supercomputers together, we cannot predict which will succeed, or what it will do.

[@AckzaTV]

wow very tartarian

[@jimsmith1856]

He makes the word "payload" sound like the end of all existence forever.

[@roysinclair7554]

It's a COMEDY bozos! LOLOLOL

[@wampuscat1831]

So you build at the site of where the mission is to be with out being pre tested properly and you have breakage..

[@UnknownPascal-sc2nk]

Would that this crew would do the ultimate Grand Canyon iMax and all the noise of commercial flights be banned

[@Michael-v3z1s]

Who Dares Wins.

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Hmmmnnn, Did not Gilbert & Sullivan Sing a song Over this..., "Mad Dogs And EuroPeons, Go out in The Midday Sun...; Out in the midday, Out in the midday, Out in the Midday Sun...!". Monty-Pythonesque, In no small measure. Such is life. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

[@anajonda]

"Herr Herzog, it's wonderful! It's put Ballooning right back on the map!" "IT'S NOT A BALLOON, IT'S A HERZOG, A HERZOG, DO YOU HEAR!!??!" "Tell me, Herr Herzog, what is the priniciples of the balloon?" "IT'S NOT A BALLOON, YOU THICKHEADED SAXON GIT!! IT'S AN AIRSHIP! BALLOONS IS FOR KIDDIE-WINKIES.. IF YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH BALLOONS, GET OUTSIDE!!!" "I understand you're to name the balloon after Roland Emmerich?" "EMMERICH??!? OF COURSE I'M NOT CALLING IT AFTER EMMERICH, IT'S A HERZOG, IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH BLOODY EMMERICH!!" "Surely he gave you some money for it..?" "GET OUT!!!" "Werner, that was the head of the federal film board that you just threw out of the balloon!" "IT'S NOT A BALLOON!!!" "Alright, I'm sorry.." "GET OUTSIDE!!!" "No, I'm fine thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......" (from The Golden Age Of German Filmmaking Part 6, ZDF)

[@hotliner2872]

Apparently anyone can be a 'professor' in London. When this showed up in my feed, I literally thought this was 30 years old, and even then, old... 3 weeks ago? We better have a good airship! No hate, just sayin... airship? have you not followed the art, or lack thereof? Mother nature will slap you hard, eventually. Positive control is needed. If you can actually ride a bike, you will have positive control and nothing bad will happen. If you leave it to fate?

[@BruceBruce-d3s]

Balloon with motors, 150 year old tech.

[@steamfire]

Ugh, what delusion to think a sphere on cone reduces drag when the flow clearly separates from the sphere before it even gets to the cone. Blowing your fingers off at 14 does show the direction of judgement he continued.

[@BILLY-px3hw]

You can precision program a bunch of drones to fly grid patterns over the canopy

[@davidcollin1436]

And scare every animal within 100 meters

[@nickjunes]

They have very limited time and can’t stay and collect samples and study

[@jimrobcoyle]

If you came for the Zeppelin, you are burnt. There is a balloon of gas around 1:08. Along with music that requires psychological drugs 😮

[@davidcollin1436]

Try an enema, it suits you better

[@patrickmullane30]

I ll eat my shoe.❤

[@mikeyoung1363]

The voice.... the gangster boss from Tom Cruise's 'Jack Reacher'?

[@UnknownPascal-sc2nk]

That's him. A versatile creative person.

[@itubeutubewealltube1]

I dont think that is technically a zeppelin/dirigible.. more like a blimp

[@TheeMikeForce]

1:16:47 I wish my rooster was here.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

strategic ambiguity is stupid. it's an invite to invasion, and an invitation to misculations. the Taiwan Relations Act legally obligats the USA to defend Taiwan. Full stop.

[@kurtk4223]

dreams and money

[@jim-x7b4p]

IS THIS BALLON GUY STILL ALIVE, He looses fingers to rocket accident, His radio dies because batteries not charged?? Well there FOOLS born EVERYDAY!!!

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

I would love to have Mark Anthony deliver the eulogy at my funeral.

[@jacksorensen9449]

Not a well built machine.

[@Ronilac]

Not much of the support from the team

[@bikepacker9850]

How very German of you "you are missing two fingers what happened to your hand"...

[@milesmarshall]

Very exciting adventure full of old camera tech from the 70's. Why risk lives when drones are available and do a better stabilized job? Why not just create an light balloon version with stabilized camera and tether it though the silent canopy? So many dumb technical choices here. I think that someone had a crazy dream that was dangerous and it showed in this documentary's outcome. Nature is nature, so not using proper modern camera tech for safety was Herzog's and team biggest fault. What a stubborn old goat that probably did not listen... 🎈

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

2004 when drones were not developed enough and freely available like today.

[@davidcollin1436]

Make your own film and clam up the adolescent "expertise"😂

[@kendexter]

A fish will do

[@MrGoldenV]

10:18 Mmmmmaaaaaghhhhhhhhhh

[@ammerudgrenda]

Not exactly aviators or engineers.