Tales of the Okefenokee (1968) - Accurate "On-Ride" Audio Mix (With Footage)

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Thanks so much for 100 subscriptions, my fellas! I never really imagined I would make it this far! *11/27/19*

[@mangojumbo]

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[@thedizzer3831]

Anything new coming soon

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Thank you, my guy! I'm glad you and so many others have enjoyed the content I've uploaded throughout the past nine months!

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

I can never say if it's over just yet. I'm sure I'll be uploading more videos sooner or later.

[@venturereclipse6833]

This is the perfect fusion of my obsessions with lost media, theme parks, and animatronics. Thank you so much!

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

The "lost media" quality is largely how I got interested in the Okefenokee to begin with. Before the original-quality source audio, live sound recordings, huge plethora of additional photos, and finally the complete footage reel were uncovered, the existence of this ride seemed incredibly cryptic and vague to anyone who hadn't experienced it in person. There was so much to piece together and fill in that I had to know more.

[@BlueBrainMountainStream]

1st part of ride "Welcome you made our day!" Whole entire ride "GO BACK! BEWARE! TURN AROUND!" Very Last part of ride " Ya'll come back now...."

[@ronwatson4902]

Great memories. We were there!

[@kewelkat]

cool fact: its possible that the okefenokee might've had a promotional reel when it first opened, since speelunkers cave had a promo video for its original opening, its not hard to think that the okefenokee might've had one recorded for the 1967 iteration

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

It did actually have a promotional filmed in exactly the same fashion as the one for the Spee-Lunker Cave, although I already have a silent, discolored version of it in my channel that you've likely already seen. If you look up "Six Flags Over Georgia 1967" on KZbin, the version with color and sound should be one of the first results.

[@beret4273]

well I don’t know how and where did you find these footages but this video is the best video on the whole youtube. you made it so good and uh... realistic I think. just thanks. I love you.

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Thanks! I consider this video to be my "magnum opus" of sorts, so I'm always glad to see others enjoying it as well. Also, I received the footage from Skip Elsheimer, a member of a small network of vintage film collectors known as "A/V Geeks". You can find the full eight-minute cut of the footage on my channel, if you haven't already.

[@ChucksterCheeses]

Excellent work as always.

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Thanks!

[@lisaboling5336]

Great childhood memories!!

[@trewashington787]

You went in that ride before?

[@katieduquette6391]

The way Fox and Bear’s eyes move in the frog pond scene....😳

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Mr. Bear's left eye was completely jammed the day the filmmakers arrived, yet they chose to get close-up shots of his face regardless. Absolute mad lads.

[@katieduquette6391]

@@okefenokee_rabbit Hahaha, Fox’s are actually more creepy to me, the way they move in impossible directions

[@drroxanne2]

This is so amazing with the photos and videos does it make up the whole ride

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

For the most part, at least. There are still some bits of the ride, especially concerning the storm, that haven't yet turned up via photographs or film.

[@pauloaguilaralmeida9502]

@@okefenokee_rabbit well there is a photo of a crocodile presumably it belongs to the storm in fact if you google something related to the attraction it is one of the first results although I couldn't tell In short, I would love for a first-person video of the attraction to come out one day. I am really curious to know more about it.

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

@@pauloaguilaralmeida9502 If you're referring to that photo of the green alligator standing on two legs, then that's from "Injun Joe's Cave," a dark ride that operated at Six Flags Over Mid-America. If it's something else, then let me know, because I would like to see it.

[@pauloaguilaralmeida9502]

@@okefenokee_rabbit Taking this into account, I think there is nothing more to see, although considering that "Injun Joe's Cave" was also created by Sid and Marty Croft, I would not be surprised if they reuse the crocodile face mold for the okefenokee crocodiles.

[@nicolascalvillo5579]

On Tales of the Okefenokee ride from Six Flags Over Georgia Theme Park in Northern America, I can see four heroes named Mr. Rabbit, Mrs. Rabbit, Mr. Raccoon, and Mr. Turtle. And the two villains named Mr. Fox and Mr. Bear. 🐇 🦝 🐢 🦊 🐻

[@SlushysSecret]

Happy 90 subscribers

[@Puppetgirl93]

2:25 hey Okee68 is that Marty Krofft’s voice as Mr. Bear

[@MrGoatfarmer]

Okee68,I found something interesting in this video,at(1:26) You can faintly see the greenish rabbit's head go up and down faintly in this section of the ride.I never knew that figure had movement.(By the way, you just have to look very closely at the Greenish rabbit in that scene to see the movement. You can't see it,but it is there.)

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Yeah, I've definitely noticed this; he's supposed to be laughing, which is also why his hand is over his mouth. Something even more obscure is Mr. Fox's jaw "quivering" in the ghost scene if you look closely.

[@MrGoatfarmer]

I did already know Mr.fox's jaw was "quivering" in the ghost scene,but I noticed that one time when I watched this. I saw the greenish rabbit's head going down and thought."That's strange."But after I posted that comment, but before you posted your comment.I just thought he was sneezing because his hand was over his mouth.

[@nicolascalvillo5579]

3:45 You guys believe that Mrs. Rabbit was saying, "Bye now, you'll heard that, you hear?"

[@catnolan2460]

A okefenokee tale --------- ---------

[@iamsimplyjustalittleguy]

In fishing scene rabbits ears are so floppy that they push against the pole lol

[@Bfyd-y7z]

My favorite part was with the terrifying sun in the end

[@elimalot6295]

3:10 and 3:14 what happened to Mr. Bear?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

The implication of the scene was that both Fox and Bear had been swept away by the winds of the storm and ended up in the middle of a pond.

[@elimalot6295]

Okay but what happened to mr. bears eyes?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

@@elimalot6295 One of his eyes got jammed somehow, and despite this the camera crew still decided to capture close-up shots of him.

[@elimalot6295]

An what year did Mr. Bears eyes got fixed?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

@@elimalot6295 They were probably only stuck for several days or so.

[@frstborn1978]

3:05 what’s with mr.bears eye?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

His left eye was jammed in its "looking up" position when this footage was shot.

[@frstborn1978]

Oh ok

[@frstborn1978]

Thx

[@popetzm1]

i hope some more footage of the wheel burrow and horror cave video is found like more video footage and photos from 1968 -1982

[@NightFangClash]

Who knows. The lost media has been really lucky these recent years with finding some interesting and huge finds like the lost and banned episode of Sesame Street and the JBVO DBZ request. Maybe there's still surviving footage of the whole Tales Of Okefenokee ride in its entirety somewhere and we just haven't discovered it yet.

[@NightFangClash]

As much as I hate to admit it, the only way we'll ever see what this ride was like in its entirety outside of audio and concept art is if Six Flags Over Georgia brings back Tales Of Okefenokee. That, however, is unlikely considering how popular Monster Mansion is and how people today would most likely consider any Tales Of Okefenokee return racist.

[@HyperMotionDX]

What is the picture at 2:42?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

That thing in the foreground is part of the fiberglass boat. Each of the watercrafts (modeled after Sioux bull boats) had these protruding poles around the rim that you could hold onto. In the background, you can see some of the briars lining the hillside around the entrance to the rabbits' burrow. That picture is actually the only photograph of the storm that I've ever seen.

[@SlushysSecret]

What did every thing look like in the refurbishment?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

I wouldn't be able to tell you anything about the mid-seventies redesign that you can't already infer from the photos we have. The ride just sort of looked worse overall; most the animated figures were given ugly tight-fitting clothing to prevent people from tampering with and stealing it, as well as other cosmetic alterations such as new fur. Changes made among all of the rabbits in particular included having their noses painted red, their ears shortened, and the fur around their eyes removed to form a weird ring of "skin" around them.

[@SlushysSecret]

Okay but why does the magic rabbits box’s say Mr Rabbits Magic?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

It reads, "Mr. Rabbit's Magic Show". Keep in mind that the caped magician rabbit was never intended to be the actual Mr. Rabbit, and that the box was simply labeled that way due to an oversight.

[@SlushysSecret]

What’s an Oversight?

[@user-sd7qo7qe4v]

Neon Mario Inc An oversight means someone looked over a mistake

[@desireemontalvo6902]

This ride looks like the peter cotton tail movie made by rankin bass

[@katieduquette6391]

This ride’s storyline is really hard to follow, I’m kind of lost haha

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

There really isn't one. When the Kroffts were revamping the ride, an actual storyline seems to have been something of an afterthought, as their iterations of the scenes were only loosely related to each other at best.

[@SlushysSecret]

Was Speelunker cave and Tales of the Okefenokee using the same boat?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Yeah, the Spee-lunker Cave, the Okefenokee, and Injun Joe's Cave at Six Flags Over Mid-America all used the same fiberglass boats.

[@practicalpisces]

1:16 What is that thing twitching on the ground? Based on the concept art, I think it is supposed to be chicken's foot?

[@goatprince1]

Close guess; it's a chicken's wing. On either side of the ghost scene, there was an animated chicken. One looked like the chicken you see in the Lozzi illustration, and one was a bizarre, abstract creation that looked more like a stick figure with feathers glued onto it. (i.imgur.com/5fmwCaI.png) I'm not sure which one is shown in the footage though, becuase they seem to have switched sides at least once according to Tim Hollis.

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Accidentally replied with my default account, for the record.

[@AcumbaWumba]

@@goatprince1 (I know this is a old comment) I think it’s the “Lozzi” one, and that it could have been one of the changes that was made during the time of this being recorded to Tim’s photos (like with the fur of Mr. Rabbit that I think you mentioned in another comment). Though, it doesn’t look much like a chicken to me from how the video is shot, so it might be something else?

[@thedizzer3831]

What will your next big project be

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

As of now, I'm not sure.

[@thedizzer3831]

OK

[@thatblindgamer726]

Nice! What else is comeing from you?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

I'm not sure as of now, other than those model revisions at some undisclosed point.

[@thedizzer3831]

What happened to the 1975 photos

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

What "1975 photos" are you talking about? I'm not aware of any Okefenokee photos explicitly dated to 1975.

[@thedizzer3831]

Okee68 the ones that somebody’s grandma took who is on the discord server

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

I don't think that guy ever had any Okefenokee photos to offer. As it turned out, his folks had simply mistaken a trip to SFOG from the early eighties in which they had taken pictures of Monster Plantation for an earlier trip from some point in the seventies in which they had ridden the Okee.

[@agentecliniozambrano3820]

Anything new planned soon?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

I'm planning on uploading a 1977 documentary titled "Six Flags Over Georgia: The First Ten Years", which is something I _would_ have uploaded months back if I weren't having supreme issues ripping it from the DVD it's on.

[@thatblindgamer726]

@@okefenokee_rabbit Oh nice. So did you ordered the DVD yet?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

It's one of the "Relics From the Vault" DVDS; I've had it since July.

[@thatblindgamer726]

@@okefenokee_rabbit Ok. Does it contain Tales of the Okefenokee footage?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

No, unfortunately.

[@elimalot6295]

What was the colors of Mr. Rabbit?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

Each Mr. Rabbit figure initially had white fur, but over time, the fishing hole and rabbits' burrow figures were retrofitted with dark brown fur (which appears black in Tim Hollis's photos), the kidnapping and bee chase figures with light blue fur (akin to the original acrylic concept paintings by Art Lozzi), and the washboard band figure with light brown fur. The only one that I'm not sure was ever given a different fur color was the cow-milking Mr. Rabbit, as I've never seen any photographic evidence of this. All of these inconsistencies were remedied during the ugly mid-seventies cosmetic overhaul, when each Mr. Rabbit figure was once again given white fur.

[@carterdunlap9957]

OK. Mind explaining those demonic carrots?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

What is there to explain about them?

[@carterdunlap9957]

What exactly are they? A reference to pop culture of the era?

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

@@carterdunlap9957 Their faces were similar to Zja Zja Gabor, but that's pretty much it.

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

"Save the Rabbi"!

[@HyperMotionDX]

Wow how overstimulating. All the music for this ride is brilliant on its own its a shame like all the tracks are bascially playing simultaneously.

[@okefenokee_rabbit]

No soundproofing back in those days, so the audio from any given part of the ride would bleed over into the adjacent scenes. In fact, if you listen closely enough to the 1972 recordings, you can hear the screaming chicken for almost an entire minute in each of them.

[@elimalot6295]

😥😥😥😥 I wish I could see them in real life but it closed 😭😭😭😭