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
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