Description
The goal of Project Awesome is to build a fully functional, fully mobile pipe organ. The organ is being constructed from mix of salvaged church organ and theatre organ parts. With many more components being built by ourselves including a completely novel and custom control system.
The organ is being constructed inside a lorry body with a fold out side stage. The lorry body will be mounted on a 6x6 truck built for the cold war, saved from scrap and rebuilt by us.
This video is the story of that truck and how it went from a factory in Moscow to the frontline of the cold war in Germany, to the bottom of a garden in rural Somerset.
Video sources:
ZIL factory footage:
Soviet Trucks. ZIL-130 Assembly Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT25kAbAFnY
"От АМО до ЗиЛ". Документальный фильм, кинолаборатории ЗиЛ, 1971 года выпуска.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS8e_i2Iji0&t=577s
Новое в производстве автомобилей ЗИЛ; Автосборочный корпус
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUuW9H1uOk
ZIL missile carriers from:
Soviet October Revolution Parade, 1980 Парад 7 Ноября
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWgVIyENZlY&t=1322s
Tank footage from Zapad 81 military training exercise. Multiple sources including:
Такой солдат непобедим (Учения 'Запад – 81')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFJ6BHZ8I4&t=486s
Atomic bomb footage from USA bomb test "Teapot 2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJXZjIp8OA
Berlin Wall footage from ITN
Photos other than my own were found on wiki commons.
Also features footage from Project Awesome episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkOVtrkdmAY&t=318s
and Project Awesome episode 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0v8G360qA
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