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 <sasch...@hotmail.com> 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
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