The Disaster That Changed Theme Parks Forever: Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure
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- Haunted Castle Across the Moat is a defunct attraction that has one of the more intense stories from any theme park. Join me in remembering the tragedy that took place at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on May 11, 1984.
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"Doorway To Hell?? The Mysteries and Controversies Surrounding the deadly Haunted Castle fire at Six Flags Great Adventure" by Peter James Smith
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This video was perfectly crafted on all levels! It was super informative, the use of the animations was great, and the way you included the names of the victims at the end was very classy. Definitely a sad moment in theme park history, but you covered it well.
Thank you so much! When I started this script over a month ago, I didn't realize it'd be one of the hardest I've worked on. Thanks for watching and commenting. It means a lot as usual!
I saw this a few months ago, and I wrote was sarcastic
using other people's work almost word by word in parts. get your own info is the hallmark of any journalist. this is never going to win the pultizer prize for integrity.
@@drpeterjamessmith Why are you upset now when your original comment was very supportive of Storybook Amusementâs video? (And why are you voicing this now as a reply to my comment?) I know for a fact that Storybook Amusement uses a variety of sources when making these videos and gives full credit for any information and media he uses. I know he has expressed admiration for your work, but he has also expanded the story and history as well by incorporating additional sources. Again, heâs always been transparent about this and itâs acceptable within fair use - not to mention general academic protocol. Sounds like integrity to me. All that to say that your sudden shift in tone is very confusing.
5 teenagers from New York went it first, tina 15 was 3 days before being 16 was there with suzette from victory Christian school they met Joseph and Nicky they went in as a group of 4, Joseph car was in parking lot first place he wanted to go
I just found this video. I am Gary Kaplow, they employee mentioned here as saving suzette Elliot. I have to compliment the content creator as he's the ONLY one that got it 100% correct!!!! there's a lot of other documentary vids about this event. this one is the one to watch!!! thank you for mentioning me in a way that touched my heart. granted I was only about 19 years old at the time and now 57 this really hit me hard and brought up some tears. but it's all good. thank you for doing this right. if you have any questions, I would be open to discuss.
Gary, thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your story. It's incredible what you did. I'm honestly honored you found the video! This comment means so much.
I've considered making this video private because there's some controversy and disagreement about this topic. Thank you so much.
Gary, Hi. This is Peter Cincotta. I worked as a clown at Great Adventure at the time of the fire. However, on the day of the fire, I happened to be attending my sister's college graduation ceremony and was not in the park. I know that the clowns were often asked to if they wanted to work overtime at the castle. I did so a couple of times and might have said yes if I was there.
hey peter. i do know who you are. my friend margie heine and myself used to hang with u. we even road-tripped to baltimore to see you at the power plant. i have a good photo of the 3 of us iâd like to send u. if u look me up on facebook i can connect with u.
Hi Gary, as someone who lives in NJ and have been to Six Flags Great Adventure many times since I was 7 years old (not in the 80s though, since i was only born in 1988 and started going to the park with my family in 1995), one question I've been wanting to know about the Haunted Castle since I've started learning about it and have seen Peter James Smith's 5-part documentary about the 1984 Haunted Castle Fire is about the emergency exits inside, or at least one of them, is it true that one of these exits was chained shut because of the more rowdy parkgoers routinely opening the door so they can go outside and smoke pot? In Peter's documentary he pointed out a newspaper article about a mother who reported that she went inside the Haunted Castle with her children not long before the day of the fire and tried to open this particular emergency exit to get out early because her kids were getting too scared and wanted to leave but she couldn't open it because there was apparently a locked chain on it that kept the door from opening.
However I, myself had been questioning this because Peter himself had explained in the documentary that a metal chain would've definitely survived the fire since we've seen in video of the burnt wreckage that a metal fence inside did indeed survive intact, so this chain, if it did exist, should've been recovered from the wreckage and proved that the emergency exit door was indeed chained shut and, this part is saddening to think about but depending on where the bodies of the teens that suffocated and died inside were located, they might've been able to make it out had they managed to find the door and it could easily open for them had that chain not been there.
Greetings! I was there that day as well.. Not at that time though as I had a show that night.
Cyborg has never worked properly ever since it was put up there, I work a haunted attraction next to it and i see it stuck for at least 20-30 mins once a night. That area still has bad feelings and we donât like being in that area for too long
I worked as a scare performer at Californiaâs Great America for several years. A lot of the one-day âScare Schoolâ was taken up with emergency procedures, managing evacuations, responding to drunks and other hazards. The stop button turned off the sound effects and turned on the work lights. I could see how much was a response to the Haunted Castle fire. Shame it took kids dying to put the safety procedures in place.
I went through that attraction with my son the day before the fire. Really makes you think. May those who lost their lives rest in peace.
That's sobering to hear. Thanks for watching.
I worked in the park the summer of 1983.
I had been in there DOZENS of times. I started to get a unexplainable feeling, observing the difference in construction & safety. I stopped going inside in the fall of 1983 and had mapped the exits.
I am the same age as most of the deceased. The tragedy has never left me. It was horrible.
Most of the tax base of Jackson Township was paid for by the Great Adventure Company. The locals would not have gone against the Great Adventure company unless it had violated State regulations. It did not.
So rude of six flags to not take ownership or memorialize the victims in any way. Great job with this!
Not acknowledging what happened on the property for all these years is disrespectful. I appreciate you watching!
@@StorybookAmusement I agree, and I also feel like all of it could've easily been avoided.
Maybe they could have rebuilt the haunted house and at the end they made a memorial of the victims that turns out to be a jump scare. That would have been funny.
You obviously do not know how legal litigation works and it shows tremendously
@@gavingambuzza1824 you donât know how to be respectful and it shows tremendously
I remember that fire, as I was at the park like a month after the fire. On a school senior class trip, as I was from Virginia and had travelled to New Jersey for a day of fun with friends, and classmates. I remember seeing the front of the Haunted Castle blocked off by barricades. May those 8 victims rest in peace. Horrible way to die.
I remember when this happened. I was just a kid and we basically lived at Great Adventure during the summers. We were there the weekend after it happened and was able to see the remains of the attraction from the top of the Ferris Wheel
I went into this attraction in 1980/81, and I remember sections of pitch blackness, which scared my friend and her father. It was VERY disorienting. Especially at the end, I recall a door, and it was shut, so no one could figure out how to exit, and an actor came over and opened it. Very creepy! I also recall thinking the decorations were silly looking, not scary to me.
Wow, thank you for sharing your experiences here. Many haunted houses at the time had hokey decorations and set pieces like you said, but this one seemed to be terrifying in its own way. So tragic about what happened. Thank you for watching.
i remember walking thru in 83 and found it to be extremely dark and loud. i was only 6 but i will never forget my experience.
I remember going in this many times including the last time I went there 40 years ago. Sad to hear people died but the workers were heroes to save as many as they did.
What an awful way to lose your kids. It's heartbreaking enough for people to lose a child but like this as well - when it could have been totally avoided.
You really put in the effort to not just make an informative video, but to tell a story. The transition at the end to honoring those lost in the fire was really special and I felt the impact.
I appreciate you checking it out! It was a hard story to put together with how heavy it is. Thank you.
I really do wish we saw pictures of the inside of the Haunted Castle before the 1984 fire. It really looked like a pretty fun attraction. Real shame about how it met a horrific demise.
Truly. Itâs interesting to think about how the inside wouldâve looked, if not knowing adds to the mystery. Thanks for watching.
This i.ytimg.com/vi/QndKjUVG5mU/mqdefault.jpg is one of the few interior pictures I have been able to find over the years. I'm unsure if it is from the actual Haunted Castle or it's twin "Gateway to Hell" over on the Jersey shore. This was the strobe hallway where the fire was started. And just to quash the common myth. No nobody was using lighters to see in this hallway. It was brightly lit with strobing lights. The white square at the end was the foam pad that was lit on fire.
@@andrewtaylor940 that picture is a 3D recreation screenshot from Peter James Smithâs documentary.
As addressed in another comment, some witnesses have claimed lighters were used to see down that hallway. Other sources disagree. This video includes what I have found to be the most consistent information available.
@@StorybookAmusement I did wonder about that? It never looked quite right. I remember that hallway as having more black and white patterns to it. But Iâm old so details like that get fuzzy. I just always assumed any interior pictures were actually from the near twin attraction on the boardwalk.
The one thing in the entire story that blows my mind is the local Fire department was in the park using the Haunted Castle as a training drill just a few weeks before the fire. And they apparently only used it for ladder rescue drills. Rescueing someone from the fake fiberglass tower. As someone who used to do fire training, I canât believe they didnât go inside. Because the place was setup like the worlds nastiest SCBA Search Drill. Put them in blackout masks and send them in. And if they had tried to search it as a drill, I would hope somebody might have realized just how dangerous it was? Everything about this fire, at every single level of the corporation, the local government, every institution failed and tried, often successfully, to cover up their failures. With kids dying as a result. There were no good actors. At trial Six Flags even bought off the then President of the NFPA, the people who largely at the time wrote the Fire Protection Standards upon which lawâs and fire codes were based. He gave sworn testimony that having sprinklers in the Haunted Castle would not have saved any lives. It caused a huge scandal. He was fired for it. And the trust in the NFPA as one of the most trustworthy organizations in America was tarnished. (Which itself led to even more tragedy, as OSHA used the scandal to step in and start dictating Fire Fighter protective gear standards which had previously come from the NFPA. Under the NFPA rules and standards no US firefighters had died from fire or building collapse in over 20 years. Under OSHA almost 50 firefighter deaths the first year of the new standards.)
I graduated high school with two of these boys. Nick and Joe. I still remember this day. A group of us was supposed to go with them. We never went because of a test we had. I think of them often â„ïžđ
Joe, myself and two other guys (Skip &Ray) rode together every day to school. We were all supposed to go that day as it was âSenior Skip Dayâ. Ray and I were Juniors, and chickened out. My parents were strict, and Skip decided not to go as well , I think cause of a test. When I saw the paper on Sunday morning, thatâs when Skip had called me and Ray to tell us the news about Joe. We were very shaken up, Joe was an extremely funny guy and great person, but also realizing, we all could have been Iâd the fire as well. There was a memorial at PCTVHS for him. To this day, I do not go on such rides, and tell my kids not to as well.
Iâve heard this story a handful of times but this is honestly so much worse (by that I mean better, but more gut-wrenching) with the mix of footage you used and the details I hadnât heard before. It really is the most horrific thing I can imagine happening to someone in such a typically pleasant place. Iâm glad the changes have prevented this from happening again, but I hate the reason it was needed.
Thank you so much for watching. What you said was wonderfully put. I had chills researching this and had to delay it because of how serious the subject is. đ
I was there that day. I was watching Golden Earring when the fire started. I am still upset there never was any kind of memorial.
How did you find out about the fire? Was it next to the concert? Did someone start screaming? Iâm quite curious!
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The lead singer stopped the concert to remark about the dark plumes of smoke.There is also a documentary by Peter Smith here on CZcams. There are five parts and he has great details from some of the people involved. It's an older documentary but super informative.
There are a lot of fairly common myths here. I recomend finding the videos or book titled "Gateway to Hell" by Peter James Smith for some of the more disturbing details about what really went on here. First up no guests did not use lighters to see in the strobe light hallway. It was brightly lit. The arson investigators were never allowed to question their chief and primary suspect, nor mention that he even existed. One of the three school groups in the park that day was one from a Special Diversionary Program for Troubled Youths that was run by the Catholic Archdioceses in conjunction with the local county. What we affectionately used to call a Juvenile delinquent Program. One of the kids known to be on that bus, and witnessed to have gone into the Haunted Mansion in the group before the two girls was known to the local county arson detectives. Because he had lit three schools on fire. This is the mysterious kid in the heavy metal t shirt. Everything about him was kept locked under seal because he was a juvenile who was already under county/state supervision. And the county went along with this fiction because they were technically the ones responsible for him being in the park, and for failing to supervise him, and failing to notice he had a lighter. He should never have been allowed on the trip or in the park. This got buried. The cops weren't allowed to talk to the kid. I attended a class with one of the Arson Investigators involved in the 90's. Probably the same guy that Peter Smith got his info from. He outright admitted they knew exactly what the deal was the moment they got the lists of the kids from the school trips. His name was such a glaring red flag to them. He liked to set walls and bulletin boards on fire. They were shut down by the DA because the kid was already under the direct control and responsibility of the DA's office. Oopsie!
Hi, thank for watching and leaving a comment. I have read his book and watched his documentary. Both of which are cited in the description as sources.
However, I used several sources for this video. Some sources include witnesses who have testified that lighters were being used to navigate though the dark. I compiled what I have found to be the most consistent information on the tragedy.
There seems to be a lot of disagreement on this topic. The information included has been cited as true across multiple sources, but Iâm willing to recognize other theories about what occurred.
What all sources agree on is that the park was negligent when it came to safety. Itâs a tragedy it caused so many young teens to lose their lives.
Thanks for the time you took to share this info.
There were lots of reports of people using lighters and matches and smoking inside of the attraction.(cigarettes and marijuana). The kid that said he saw someone start the fire was reported because when he got back on the bus he was lighting his lighter in the back of the bus and he was seen coming out of the Haunted Castle right before the first reports of fire. The foam was engulfed immediately so he was likely the one who set the fire and got away with killing eight people.
This was STILL the worst tragedy to ever happen at an amusement park, fuck limitations. If this happened in 2023 theyâd have viral video of the kid and he wouldnât have been allowed to live a normal life. Why the fuck was this so pushed under the rug?
There were multiple failures contributing to this. The Park and the township were both woefully inadequate regarding the safety of this structure. I sat through monthly department safety meetings where maintenance work orders were usually granted to maintain the income producing food stands & attractions. The Haunted Castle was almost always on the discussion list at these meetings. Under the category of "too little, too late " was this tragic irony...exactly a week prior to the fire, a response fire drill was conducted with Cassville & park Fire departments, specifically mapping out the most expedient way for the trucks to wind their way through the trees during a response. Just a long list of bad timing and bad decisions leading up to this tragedy, costing unnecessary loss of life. Most of the decision makers during this time have since joined the victims. RIP to them all.
@@StorybookAmusement people would use lighters in the darker areas. Which this hallway was not. I am a witness to this. I was last in that hallway 4 or 5 days before the fire. You would not use a lighter for light in that hallway. There was no point. It was a fast strobe light effect hallway. You felt like you were brightly lit but moving in stop motion. The hallway was brightly lit at about 20-25 fps. There was the blacked out twisty maze area where lighters were common. But no flammableâs on the walls. It also had a strong stench of weed. I was also in the park 3 days after the fire. There was a different really horrible odor hanging over the park. It would be a few years before I encountered that horrifying smell again as a firefighter. It was a very distinct smell that thankfully even firefighters do not encounter often. They opened the park with the smell of those poor kids deaths still in the air for days.
Because of this fire, a lot of the haunted houses in NJ were torn down.
Iâm glad six flags was found guilty of manslaughter. They ignored recommendations to take safety precautions, the building was never inspected. Such a senseless tragedy that should never have happened.
It's really awful what happened, especially considering it seemed to be very preventable. Thank you for watching.
They were found not guilty of manslaughter
Very well put together video, what a terrifying story and whilst itâs a shame they needed a disaster to change the rules around safety, I hope we donât see these types of incidents anymore
I appreciate the kind words! Listening to and reading the testimonies from that day was absolutely heartbreaking. I hate it took something this tragic to put strict regulations in place.
Thanks for watching as always. đ
What an amazingly well done video covering a tragedy with tact and sensitivity
I appreciate that so much, Pi. đ
Back in the days, 1983 I went to Great Adventures on a school trip (144).. We went into the Haunted House (it was trailers put together) real live ppl jump out at you and touch you, we all walked in hurdles tightly close to each other anticipating the next scary moment.. People were getting slapped and hit, ppl grabbing on you for fear. It was so dark, it even looked like there wasnât any floor, looked as if you could fall through the floor and at one point, looked like a fire was under the floor. While I was there, some kid lit up a lighter because everyone was in a panic but then we all saw the exit and we rushed to open the exit door to leave but got sunlight instead. There was no way to go out that door because although it led to outside, it was fenced in with other outside trailers Some of us kids wanted to leave immediately. With the door opened, it became so bright inside from the sun, so we propped it open but then as we advanced further it got darker.. Finally we was out and I said never again.. Just had a bad feeling. Iâll never forget when I heard the news later that same year, that 8 people were incinerated in a fire in that same Haunted House due to someone lighting a match. They couldnât escape. I instantly had a flash back to the time I went.. I knew the scared feeling and wanting to be outta there. Does anybody remember going in there? I also went on the ride Lightning Loops on that same trip, another scary ride and heard a few years later that a girl fell out of the ride and was killed. I never went back to Great Adventures even though I wanted to..
Karen brown accident was her fault I worked on lighting loops, the ride ended everyone got up and left thru gates.... meanwhile the restraint she was in she came back was locked she jumped in the seat, the ride was cleared ready to go, if the operator hit estop the jerk would have thrown her, she fell out
@@scottcook2568 that ride was crazzzy
Many thanks for sharing this video. Iâve not heard of this disaster before but at least improvements in haunted house safety were a memorial to those lost, which is much more than what Six Flags did.
I don't have a lot of respect for the Six Flags chain. Very tacky, and this just further proves it.
Thanks for tuning in. Have a safe and happy new year!
@@StorybookAmusement Iâve only been to Magic Mountain & it was quite rundown.
Many thanks & all the best for 2022.
My dad was their during that day and told us how they were escorted over the park because of a fire? He didn't find out until later what really happened.
I was there in 1979...after it had opened. I recently found pictures from that day a year ago
Never imagined photos of me would be popping up so many years later... well done piece.
(the philsters wife)
Thatâs so interesting! Where are you in the video, if I may ask? Thanks for commenting!
In brown at the first Haunted House; in the courtroom pointing to the diagram of the Castle layout
@@thephilster2861 Oh wow. Well thank you so much.
Well, given what I heard about Six Flags not caring about safety precautions, they had this coming to them.
They definitely weren't concerned with safety in this situation. Seems like they're taking operations and safety more seriously this year than in the past though, likely due to recent theme park tragedies.
@@StorybookAmusement Yeah, I just wish it wouldn't take a tragedy to get parks to consider the safety of guests.
Even though Six Flags increased safety and more rides, it shouldâve least give the memorial to 8 teenagers who died in that fire.
Absolutely
Again yes it's sad but they can't do it for multiple reasons, where does it end, 2 people died on rolling thunder one employee and one guest, Karen brown on lighting loops, employee in the cable car died, where does it end you go to a park to escape from reality no park is gonna list oh btw 8 teenagers died on this spot...thoughtful but no
Absolute nightmare when you realize the horror is real life and not part of the show đ°
I feel like the strobe light malfunctioning leaving part of the attraction completely black made people pull out their lighters and someone could of easily ran into and caught something on fire
Isn't amazing, how we have to wait for a disaster to happen, ,,, then we fix it?
I went to Great Adventure with my mom that summer a couple weeks before school started.
I went in it in 1982, but there was very little in it at the time. Just darkness and a girl exited crying having hit her head on the ceiling. Hence the polyurethane which is the equivalent of solid gasoline. Same thing as the Station Fire in Warwick RI. Unfortunately these types of fires keep continuing as nightclubs and other venues keep ignoring fire regulations.
I from NJ and my teachers and parents remember this
Ah, thatâs interesting. Thanks for watching.
Iâm not surprised the jerks from my old high school lit this up. That school was full of criminals that would have never respected rules.
What school
Please, what school? There was talk of a catholic troubled juvenile group that came to six flags that day 5/11/84, a suspected student had apparently lit multiple fires on school grounds and was still allowed into the park that day. Reports about this individual flicking said lighter on the bus back home. Read other comments. This needs to be reopened and re-examined. Please if you have any details I encourage you to share.
@@ZombiesFan95 it was mine Franklin k lane Brooklyn ny lol.
Hey my man, years ago I made the originally published documentary about the Haunted Castle fire, and I must say that you have a very good (from what I have gathered so far) piece about the Haunted Castle. I noticed -and please don't think I'm uptight about this kind of thing because it always happens and I am used to it- that you used some of my animation of the Haunted Castle interior, BUT is not a total rip off of what I did like others often post. You have quite a few original angles and it's very good. Like I said, people do use parts of stuff I published in the past and I used to get mad, but now it is kind of flattering. I don't know. I never made two cents off my work, so it's not costing me! As far as I see it, you dedicate it to the teenagers who died in the fire, and as long as it furthers their story, I'm happy to help. But I wish I had known you were making the film because I could have given you a better version of the animation to use, but it still looks great. I hope that I was inspirational in what I made all those years ago. I must have been in some ways, and I am honored. It was the very, very first thing I ever made, and I think it is kind of amateurish to look back on, but I did not expect it to be seen today like it is. I thought maybe if it were shown in my local library at the time, I was a success. If you ever want to chat about the fire, I can tell you so many things you would want to know and you'd love it. Message me anytime! Peter
Hi there. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment. First off, thanks for all your research on this topic and the attention you've brought to fire safety as a result. I read your book and of course watched the documentary. Although I use many sources to create each video, your work was a tremendous help in putting this small project together, as cited on screen and in the description. I rely on multiple newspaper articles and books when possible.
Your documentary to me was well-done, especially considering it was produced independently and many years ago. I'm sure the conversations you've had since creating that and publishing the book have been beyond interesting, discovering new facts and hearing new stories of the incident.
Thank you for your offer and for reaching out. I appreciate you.
The worst part about this wasn't even the deaths, it was how this was entirely preventable, ESPECIALLY considering that 5 years earlier, across the pond, another fatal fire occurred at a theme park and also took multiple lives; those people would've lived if the ride had better fire protection.
I remember that . Very Sad
Very. Thanks for commenting.
Dang, what a mess
It thankfully make some changes for regulations. Hate that this is what it took to make that happen.
is suzette elliot still alive?
Unfortunately, a lot of this information is inaccurate.
1. Related documents confirm that a student, who had already been expelled from school for fire starting, most likely started the fire. The lights were not malfunctioning inside. He was the only one who was seen with a lighter. He was questioned but never named or charged due to inconclusive evidence.
2. Changes to the layout was changed in recent months/years to protect ride operators who were notoriously attacked and tormented by guest. This made it even more difficult for patrons to escape, and also redirected staff members away from the area where the most of the deceased were eventually found. There is also evidence that an exit door was changed shut to prevent staff from leaving to smoke outside the attraction. This was never confirmed.
3. The local fire department was unable reach the fire promptly due to heavy crowds. The on-site response team arrived in five minutes (essentially just park employees), but actual fire officials took much longer to arrive on scene.
4. The deep corruption in the area was to blame for the lack of justice for these families.
Hi, thank you so much for watching and providing this info.
Thereâs unfortunately a lot of conflicting info available about this topic. I tried my best to compile the most consistent info over a variety of sources about what happened.
Some of what you shared is new to me, so I appreciate the time you took to share your input!
We use to go camping behind great adventures they have a safari we here the Lions roar at nite we were all stunned up partying big fire police never bothered us did it many times we had boats didn't alone the edges of amusmint park prosper town lake big bass old cranberry Boggs in the early days I still o there
i lived next door to an elderly home,, i was with my mom, and an old lady, waiting for a cab,,,, the woman fell over a land marker, outside a small wall, the marker was ouside of that, above the sidewalk about 9 inches or so, we turned around, and she was on the sidewalk. She broke her hip, and died a month later. after that, the city burried the marker. it's kinda like, putting up a railing, after someone falls down. construction people still know damn well, what is a fire hazard is, but they keep on getting built,, along with other stupid things
I am so happy they didn't ask to use my exclusive video that I paid a fortune to make and HACKED IT. Make up your own dialouge next time you make a film, and maybe not copy other's words verbatim, like you did mine. I guess it must have took you a few hours to cough up this piece of trash, I had to get by researching three solid years. The use of the footage is disgraceful and if you used a few seconds I might not have cared, but it's ALL MY FOOTAGE ALMOST THE ENTIRE THING I could be sick.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for commenting again. It seems your attitude has changed since your original comment a few months ago. I thought we were on good terms.
For this video, I used many different sources-newspaper articles, various online resources, your documentary, and your book-all of which are cited. While yes, your research was a tremendous help for this video, it was not the only resource used.
I used my own words for the entire script, as I've done with each video uploaded to the channel. Any direct quotes were attributed as such, but I don't believe I included any of your exact words in this video. If you have a direct example of me using your words verbatim, please enlighten me.
As a rule of thumb, my videos take about two to three hours per minute of the video. This upload is about 17 minutes, so it would've taken me around 40 hours to complete.
Your footage appears on screen for about five minutes of the video, which is a high estimate by me. The majority of the video includes original animation, some other footage, and many images that are not from your work.
This video is designed to tell the story of the events and honor the victims. These videos are made as a hobby.
What do you suggest the solution should be?