tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post9016850170400061111..comments2024-01-01T11:10:30.424-08:00Comments on Mosaic Movie Connect Group: The African Queen -- dependence and inter-dependenceMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635841382544836698noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post-22756280047876256702013-05-12T09:05:57.986-07:002013-05-12T09:05:57.986-07:00References in other media to SL Livingstone 1912 h...References in other media to SL Livingstone 1912 have led to mistaken claims for where the African Queen was built. These claims have demonstrated both that the skills of movie-makers for illusion can mislead effectively, and that such skills are not fully appreciated. The movie DVD shows internal combustion engine exhaust emanating from the stern of the vessel, port side, 20 cm above the waterline. This evidence supports marine expert L G Dennis description of the movie-making where he writes that the African Queen was a Uganda Railway Marine motorboat, fitted with a mock-up boiler etc.(The Lake Steamers of East Africa (Runnymede) 1996 pp 152-153) and a report of explanations by former US owner James Hendricks Snr that 'It was a vintage African boat'. 'She originally had a diesel engine'(Tony Gabriele: Daily Press, Norfolk, Va June 06 1997). It is likely that the Uganda Railway Marine workshops were capable of building a 28ft motorboat by 1930, so the African Queen could easily be a vintage African boat. It was of iron. Abdela's Brimscombe yard built in steel.Tony Langfordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post-38531760650835693192010-08-09T12:53:49.978-07:002010-08-09T12:53:49.978-07:00Where the African Queen was built
According to re...Where the African Queen was built<br /><br />According to recent on-the-ground research (see www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/New-Stroud-canal-boat-follows-wake-Bogey-s-African-Queen/article-686448-detail/article.html) the legendary riverboat ‘Queen Of Africa’ which gave a star performance in the 1951 John Huston movie The African Queen was built at the Abdela & Mitchell Brimscombe works in Gloucestershire between 1908 and 1911. <br /><br />The Abdela river-boats were highly-regarded for their elegance (see www.rammworldculturesonline.org.uk/Projects/Beauty-%E2%80%93-in-the-Eye-of-the-Beholder/For-Profit-and-Pleasure), shallow draft - often less than 40cm - and flexibility, viz the ‘Adis Ababa’ for Lt-Col John Harrington’s White Nile/Ethiopia expedition of 1903 – ‘boiler arranged to burn oil, coal or wood’. <br /><br />Marine architect grandfather Isaac J Abdela was the proprietor of the Abdela & Mitchell shipyards when the ‘Queen Of Africa’ was built at Brimscombe. The Shipyards announced themselves as ‘Contractors To The Admiralty, War Office, India Office And Allied Governments’. <br /><br />These yards also built luxurious river-boats with gold bath-taps for Amazon rubber barons. <br /><br />Many of the river-boats went to the Nile, the Niger and other African rivers, and especially to the Peruvian Amazon and other Amazonian tributaries.<br /><br />The other stars of The African Queen were Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Much of the movie was shot near Stanleyville. The location in Africa proved tricky, see Katharine Hepburn’s account in ‘How I Went to Africa with Bogie, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind’. Famous quotes from the movie below. <br /><br />During World War One there really was a German gunboat steaming (and controlling) the lake, the Graf Goetzen. The ship, almost 70 meters long, was built in Germany and assembled on-site. The ‘Louisa’ in The African Queen was inspired by this ship. The historical Graf Goetzen was sunk in June 1916 by its own crew to avoid capture.Tim Symondsnoreply@blogger.com