Thanks Michael, you've inspired me to start reviewing Tarzan movies, I see that
it is a daunting task, there are a lot of them and go back into the 1930s. It
will be a stroke of luck to find the right one.
But for a sundial guy, it's such a special clip.Sasch
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:28:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Tarzan's sundial
From: email9648...@gmail.com
To: sasch...@hotmail.com
CC: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Sasch:
The International Movie Data-Base (IMDb) lists 10 Tarzan movies for the '50s.
But Johnny Weismuller isn't in any of them. It's Lex Baxter (or Barker?) until
Gordon Baxter took over in 1955.
Here's the list:
1950: Tarzan & the Slave Girl (Lex Baxter)
1951: Tarzan's Peril (Lex Baxter)
1952: Tarzan's Savage Fury (Lex Baxter)
1953: Tarzan & the She-Devil (Lex Baxter)
1955: Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (Gordon Scott)
1957: Tarzan & the Lost Safari (Gordon Scott)
1958: Tarzan & the Trappers (Gordon Scott)
1958: Tarzan's Fight for Life (Gordon Scott)
1959: Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (Gordon Scott)
1959: Tarzan the Ape Man (Gordon Scott)
Look at the synopses of those movies. Maybe one of them will have something
familiar from the movie of interest.
When you find the right one, or some possibilities for the right one, check to
find out if it's on YouTube.
Michael Ossipoff
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:16 AM, sasch stephens wrote:
There is a Tarzan movie, maybe with Johnnie Weissmiller from the 1950's which
might have been
the inspiration for the Terror Creatures film. I've been hoping to find the
clip for 30 years to be used as part of a sundial exhibition. It's too good!
The scene in question finds Tarzan in the jungle with two obviously sinister
characters near their twin prop plane. Tarzan is telling them that they are
not welcome there and takes two sticks, one small and one large and vigorously
sticks them in the ground and says, "When the shadow of the tall stick passes
the small stick, you must be gone". It fits in so well with the primal forces
of the jungle.
I've been in search of this clip for years, anyone know how to find it? Sasch
Stephens
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:47:05 -0400
Subject: Another movie with a sundial
From: email9648...@gmail.com
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Another movie
with a sundial:
A 1965 English-subtitled
foreign movie called Terror Creatures
from the Grave had a character
describing and showing a sundial.
It was an azimuth
dial, admittedly not an old or fancy one. It didn’t read in hours. It just
marked one solar azimuth.
In fact, it
consisted of two sticks, vertically sticking in the ground. A long stick and a
short one.
Two characters
were walking along the shore, and the woman called the man’s attention to
something
on the ground. He said, “What is it?”. She said it was a sundial that her
father used to use to find out when the fish were biting. When the long stick’s
shadow pointed toward the short stick, he would take his boat into the reeds.
Of course one would
expect fish to respond more to solar altitude
than to azimuth.
But there could
have been a tree, or a vertical cliff-edge or building, that began or ceased to
shade the fishing-spot at a certain solar azimuth.
Michael Ossipoff
---
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
---
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial