U.S. NAVY NAVAL AVIATOR TRAINING FILM " FLAT HATTING " PILOT CARTOON XD31504c

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Dating to 1946, this black and white animated U.S. Navy pilot training film "Flat Hatting" emphasizes the importance of avoiding unnecessary low-level flight during solos. The cartoon follows a naval aviator named Murphy who, as a child, had a drive towards self-destruction. As he grew older, he learned to tame his animal instincts (2:00). At 2:12, he is shown as an officer and a gentleman. At 3:12, bored out of his mind while flying a solo, Murphy decides to buzz a farm, terrifying the farm animals and human occupants. He goes on to buzz a city and gets grounded in a court martial (5:00). He winds up the stockade.
By definition, flat hatting is -- flying an airplane low and recklessly. (As if flying low enough that only people wearing flat hats could escape being struck.)
This cartoon draws from the contemporaneous work of Lt. Robert Osborn, who created a character known as Grampaw Pettibone in 1943 to enliven Navy safety tips for a Bureau of Aeronautics newsletter. Osborn was also the creator of more than 2,000 “Dilbert the Pilot'' and “Spoiler the Mechanic” posters, which delivered helpful reminders to US pilots of WWII.
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[@welshpete12]

When I learnt to fly may years ago , I was told two things . "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but no old bold pilots" .

[@awsome1605]

This short was directed by John Hubley, background and layout artist for Disney who would go on to create Mr. Magoo for UPA

[@kc4cvh]

The hijinks continued another forty years, culminating in the Tailhook Symposium. Afterward, things became a bit more subdued.

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

I wonder if any of the animators on this would go on to work with MGM or Warner Bros in the 1950s, where this Modernist Style of Animation Artwork dominated through the 1960s.

[@monsieurcommissaire1628]

I was just enjoying the gorgeous modernism on display here! I imagine some of the animators did find work in the post-war era.

[@danielcruz8347]

1941..staring john Belushi as wild bill kelso mcmurphy..high above LA...thanks periscope

[@farpointgamingdirect]

"My name is Wild Bill Kelso: and DON'T YOU FORGET IT!" 🤣 Havent seen that movie in years!

[@danielcruz8347]

@@farpointgamingdirect sir yes sir

[@michaelnoller3441]

Thanks for that. I love that movie. I've got to see it again. John Candy, Slim Pickens, and tons of other great actors and actresses. Major clut classic. Nice.

[@joshuabessire9169]

McWatt and Kid Samson were just having a little fun.

[@CEOkiller]

It’s time to buzz the tower, Goose…

[@0neIntangible]

Before watching this, I was first thinking of "flat hatting" same as landing on a "flat top" aircraft carrier, (judging by the title of this notification). I got a chuckle out of the coin operated weighing machine in front of Ed's 1:43...I remember seeing them everywhere as a kid, not anymore. I wonder if they made a comeback today, perhaps we wouldn't have the obesity epidemic we see in America now.

[@OfficialUSKRprogram]

There's one in almost every Rest Area restroom in New York and New Jersey, the problem is nobody's carrying change on themselves anymore, not even I do, even if I'd like to use them. Hey, the machines give me "my lucky number" whatever that means, I wanna know my lucky number!

[@Bill23799]

3 Flat Hatting Naval Aviators gave this video a Thumbs Down.

[@jimmybritt9537]

They still do it , I've been buzzed by fighter jets out in the ocean 😄👍👍🇺🇸

[@markdraper3469]

Yea, and certain parts of the desert around Edwards in CA and Fallon in NV. This film is guilt tripping the individual pilot while ignoring that SOME of the grandstanding is just another kind of "group dynamic" they pretend not to recognize. Your normal fighter jock wants to go home at the end of the day just as much as any of us.

[@FeedMeMister]

Times change, but the human condition doesn't.

[@2lotusman851]

God bless them all.

[@gregsiska8599]

-Seen the radar towers at FACSFAC VACAPES buzzed like that in 1981.

[@amyyoung2830]

3:31 the animals look like they escaped from Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" painting.

[@MrOkgrillo]

LOve it!

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[@macmedic892]

Murph got the officer’s version of the big chicken dinner.

[@christoffermonikander2200]

Have a biography by a WW2 veteran naval aviator that flew Helldivers and Corsairs. It has an entire chapter dedicated to the art of buzzing. Don't think he saw this movie.

[@leechowning2712]

Sure he did... He starred in it.

[@Bill23799]

Ensign Murphy did show restraint. He didn't fly under that bridge.

[@MrEirelion]

Agreed. Motion to dismiss

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Sustained

[@billness2635]

So he went over to the Air Corp who gladly enlisted the trained pilot.

[@alexcarter8807]

Into the Infantry.

[@skovner]

The house he grew up in reminds me of the Addams Family house. PUGGSLEY!!!!!!

[@antonsorokin3881]

very interesting style of the painting, like a 60's Chuck Jones

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1946. One of UPA's early efforts (as "United Fim Productions"), under John Hubley. Script by Bill Scott.

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[@fromthesidelines]

Thanks.

[@randallulrich]

Looks more like the style of Tex Avery cartoons. Murphy looks like the main character in the Tex Avery cartoon "Symphony in Slang" (1951)

[@antonsorokin3881]

​@@randallulrich Yes, same style. It is spirit of that time, pre-hippy, bitniks' era. And, Disney had this style too in It's "Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom" 1953, look at the contours of the orchestra, and more. in this video, the 40s are not over yet, but the style is already there

[@burtbacarach5034]

Cough cough Wet Start McCain cough cough

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

Is it the voice of Howard Duff as the officer that court-martials Murphy?

[@richmanwisco]

Don't be Murph.

[@jonathanbray3075]

MORAL!?!?! Do what you want... Just don't get caught!

[@mydelorean9490]

What. This isn't about flat earth at all. Darn you algorithm

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Swedish cold war pilots were infamous for this, and many paid the price for it, not in stockades or courts, but in closed casket funerals with honours if any had been previously earned as the "deck" was only 50m over land and inhabited areas, 20m over sea in normal conditions, 10m over sea in level flight on a steady course with more than 3.5km visual range without obstacles. No speed limits outside airframe tolerances. A few pilots did get charged in court and cited for unusually reckless flying, like trick flying a jet fighter underneath public highway bridges in central Stockholm at near supersonic speed...

[@HM2SGT]

The predictable results when the totems and conventions of society go on imposed. Looking at the current crop of self-appointed thought police and the trend towards permissiveness, we’re going to have a rough patch until this lesson gets learned all over again. With out controls to guide individuals to reason that they must learn discipline, restraint and self control, we are promoting a permanent immaturity.

[@isprobablyjobhunting]

Thought police and permisivness.

[@plflaherty1]

@@isprobablyjobhunting Ya, an exciting new take on modern society!

[@arcanondrum6543]

Wow, so a jerk who grew up with a sense of privilege learned to act politely THEN became a bigger jerk when he was given power? What would Murphy do if he thought he could Pardon himself?

[@brucewelty7684]

become the second phony president in my lifetime

[@markdraper3469]

What makes it worse is that Orangutan Murphy still thinks he can pardon himself.

[@fromthesidelines]

There's nothing wrong with Murphy. It's "JACK" I'm worried about. You ignorant saps.

[@arcanondrum6543]

"...nothing wrong with Murphy..." Wow! That sounds like someone who can watch a whole video of evidence and STILL not see a problem!

[@DutchCrunch333]

@@fromthesidelines lets goooooo brandon!

[@luckybestwash]

This pretty much describes John McCain's flying style, without the court martial he so richly deserved.

[@michaelnoller3441]

Kids. There was a different PC at this time. Keep in context, please.

[@jerrynewberry2823]

Propaganda excuse film for aviator behavior.