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Lights...Cameras...Adventure!
April 23-24
SAFARI MUSEUM
FILM FESTIVAL
Friday,
April 23 Feature
EVENT
SIMBA
Martin and Osa Johnsons'
earliest surviving feature film!
Released in January 1928, Simba
still astonishes with some of the most spectacular images of Africa's peoples
and wildlife...Filmed over a four
year span between 1924 and 1927, the movie contains highlights of the Johnson's
2nd trip to Africa and their efforts "...to film an authentic record of the
life of the lion."
...The movie captures an array of animals and features
extensive footage of elephants and rhinos in Kenya, plus lions in the Serengeti...Primarily
filmed while on foot safaris using a tripod, the numerous close encounters and
actual animal charges speak to the Johnsons courage and determination to make a
thrilling and interesting movie.
...Finally, the movie creates a remarkable portrait and an
invaluble record of lost cultures through the Johnsons' encounters with the
peoples of Kenya and Tanzania, including the Boran, Samburu, Turkana and Meru.
Doors
Open at 6pm Friday Evening!
LOCATION: TBA (Visitor
Maps Available at Museum)
SATURDAY, April 24
MATINEES & DAY EVENTS
10am-1pm
at the NCCC
Auditorium
1-5
pm at the Safari Museum
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10am MATINEE
Book
Premiere and author signing event...
Keep checking here for updates!
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11am MATINEE
Born
Free: The Lives of Joy and George Adamson
Dick
Houston, President of EleFence International will be the matinee speaker.
Dick will recount his work with the Adamsons in Africa, show some footage of
George Adamson in the field and discuss the state of wildlife conservation today.
To
read more about Dick’s work and ELEFENCE INTERNATIONAL, please click here.
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12 pm MATINEE
BORN
FREE
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fictional book
Born Free.
The film was directed by James H. Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. Born Free, and its musical score by John Barry, won numerous awards.
It and the story of Elsa the Lion remains a sentimental Africana fan favorite
to this day.
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1-5 MUSEUM
OPEN HOUSE, MATINEE & ANIMAL EVENTS
Please
safari over to the museum and...
View
the museum's temporary exhibition,
watch
an afternoon matinee of
I
Married Adventure:
A Thrilling Airplane Safari
The
Story of Dorothy Peabody Davison
When
Dorothy Peabody Davison died in 1992, she left behind an incredible legacy
for future generations. The youngest child of The Reverend Endicott
Peabody and his wife Fanny, she defied many of the stereotypes and cultural
expectations placed on women of her era, while at the same time she embraced
many traditions without any sense that she was betraying her values or
compromising her individuality. Although brought up around money, and
to a certain extent married to it, she was never too precious not to get her
clothes or her hands dirty. She met her husband Trubee when he was a
Senior Prefect at Groton School, and fell for him when he wrote her a love
letter every day for two years while he was at Yale. She was an avid
athlete, who played tennis at Forest Hills before it was the U.S. Open, had a
pilot's license, and traveled with her husband on many shooting expeditions
all over the world, including one safari with explorers Martin and Osa
Johnson.
Doppsie
never wrote much herself, and after her oldest son died she found it
difficult to speak in very emotional terms about her feelings. This
documentary is based on her diary, one of the few remaining archives of her
thoughts about life on the road with Trubee and life at Peacock Point.
and
check out the
CHANUTE
MAINSTREET PETTING ZOO!
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Saturday,
April 24 Feature
Film
OUT of AFRICA
Out of Africa, a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.
In 1985 the film we're featuring this evening was released. It is based loosely on the autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen
published in 1937, as well as Dinesen's Shadows on the Grass and other sources. The movie received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The music for Out of Africa, including Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and African traditional songs, also has many 2nd-generation compositions by John Barry, based on his older music "temp-tracked" in film-editing by director Sydney Pollack, from previous Barry films, such as Born Free (1966), Robin and Marian (1976), and The Last Valley (1970-71) which inspired the music Flying over Africa, over Lake Nakuru's flamingos. Barry's score was listed at #15 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.
Director Sydney Pollack was a donor to the Museum's African Art Collection,
including pieces collected during the filming of this movie.
Doors
Open at 6pm Saturday Evening!
Location:
TBA
(Visitor
Maps Available at Museum)
Please
keep checking here for schedule updates!
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