Barry, you are awesome, how did you do that? Thanks so much. Can we somehow put this clip on the NASS website? I think it will attract popular attention to the sundial website if we can make some kind of link.
> Subject: Re: Tarzan's sundial > From: bar...@mac.com > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:32:29 +0100 > CC: sasch...@hotmail.com > To: sundial@uni-koeln.de > > The film is the 1942 “Tarzan’s New York Adventure” and the scene is about 6 > minutes in. > > I’ve uploaded a clip of the scene to You Tube, you can find it at > https://youtu.be/G-Of5dyGq38 > > -- > Barry > > > > > On 18 Jul 2015, at 23:29, sasch stephens <sasch...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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