Gentlemen. Your magazine will be with me on a raft. At the mercy of the winds, all the way...
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Thor Heyerdahl:
[Talking with three National Geographic's members]
Gentlemen. Your magazine will be with me on a raft. At the mercy of the winds, all the way to Polynesia. It is further than from Chicago to Moscow. Here to here.
[pointing it in a map behind him]
Committee Member:
You'll have some sort of engine in case of emergency?
Thor Heyerdahl:
No. Absolutely not. We will surrender to the current and the wind... like Tiki did.
Committee Member:
[curious]
And by undertaking this extraordinary voyage, you are proving?
Thor Heyerdahl:
That the oceans were not barriers, but roads. Not impediments, but pathways. I will prove that South American people sailed to Polynesia...
Committee Member:
[refused]
Every schoolboy knows that Polynesia was peopled from Asia, not South America.
Thor Heyerdahl:
And it is my job as a scientist to prove those schoolboys, and those who quote them, wrong.
[turning to the map]
Thor Heyerdahl:
Ancient man, being sun worshipers...
Committee Member:
[interrupting Thor]
Mr. Heyerdahl. Doubtless the story of Norwegians drowning in the pacific will sell a lot of magazines. But not this one.
Thor Heyerdahl:
[angry]
This is a scientific expedition!
Committee Member:
Our magazine has a higher purpose than to finance and enable men bent on suicide. I doubt he'll have any success recruiting anyone for such a voyage.
Transcript
Gentlemen...
Their journal
to accompany me on a raft -
- At the mercy of the wind,
all the way to Polynesia.
It is further
than from Chicago to Moscow.
8,000 kilometers.
You did a motor for emergencies?
No. We must surrender
power and wind.
How Tiki did before us.
And what do you hope to prove
this strange journey?
The world's oceans
were not barriers, but roads.
I will prove that South Americans
sailed to Polynesia -
- 1500 years ago.
Even schoolboys know
that Polynesia was settled from the east.
And it is my task to prove -
- That schoolchildren
and those who quote them wrong.
Ancient people...
Mr Heyerdahl.
We do not print articles about Norwegians
drowning in the Pacific.
This is a scientific ...
Our magazine does not intended
to finance a suicide mission.
He can hardly
recruit anyone for such a journey.
Clip duration: 181 seconds
Views: 201
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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01:11 That a 1500 year old civilization
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01:14 Your Excellency
04:14 Look around you
03:01 At the mercy of the winds