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11th Anniversary!

April 26-27

Safari Film Festival
Schedule of Cinematic Adventures:

   

Friday, April 26
 

Feature EVENT


THE KING's SPEECH

 Based on the true story of King George VI, THE KING'S SPEECH follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice. This film won 4 Oscars, and had another 82 film award wins & 101 nominations worldwide.
Film runs 118 minutes.

 

 Anyone who has ever read Osa Johnson’s I Married Adventure or Four Years in Paradise knows there is a connection between the royal subjects of this film and the Johnsons.  Martin and Osa spent most of 1924-1927 near Lake Paradise in Africa where they entertained a number of celebrity guests, including the Duke and Duchess of York (George VI & Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who later become the King & Queen of England).  This is a 1925 photograph of the royals having a picnic and tea with the Johnsons along the route to their Lake Paradise camp.

Doors Open at 6 Friday Evening...Program will start at 6:15!

in the CHANUTE HIGH SCHOOL Auditorium

(Visitor Maps Available at Museum)

 

 

SATURDAY, April 27 

MATINEES 

DAY EVENTS

 

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10am to 5pm  Museum Open House

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11-3 PETTING ZOO  
Kramer's Petting Zoo will be set up behind the museum and is free to the public!

We really appreciate Jane Brophy of the Chanute Chamber of Commerce and Office of Tourism for arranging the petting zoo event and we'd like to thank Commercial Bank, Community National Bank & Trust and Ranz Motor Company here in Chanute for sponsoring it!  This is one of the most beloved of the Film Fest/Safari Days events and we're really glad to have great local sponsors here to help us bring in these types of fun, family events!

 

 

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11am Artisan Displays in the museum lobby & outside the museum weather permitting

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  12-1:30~Lunch on your own.  A list of restaurants and city maps are always available at the Museum's front desk!

 

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1:30pm PRESENTATION  in the Museum’s SNARK THEATRE

The Lion Hunt: Premiering a new-found Johnson Film!

 

A previously unknown short silent film by Martin and Osa Johnson titled "The Lion Hunt" has been found and is being transferred to premiere at this matinee!  The film is a standalone short, complete with a title and closing credits, but the footage seems to be a rearrangement of scenes from the Johnsons' Hollywood Feature ACROSS THE WORLD.  During this presentation, we will run both the new film and excerpts related found in ACROSS THE WORLD.

The new film is 3 mins. long; stock clips shown will run approx 13 mins.

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2pm PRESENTATION  in the Museum’s SNARK THEATRE

1928 INTRODUCTION FILM:  MEET MARTIN AND OSA JOHNSON

 We'll be showing a restored and very rare introduction that was produced in 1928 to accompany the film SIMBA.  The film was produced to introduce explorers Martin and Osa Johnson to the general public.  Milestone Films did the restoration and kindly gave us permission to show the film at our festival this year.  

This footage is 15 mins. in length.

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 3pm PRESENTATION  in the Museum’s SNARK THEATRE  

THE LOST EXPLORER 

This short film directed by Tim Walker is based on the novel The Lost Explorer by Patrick McGrath.  The full film runs for 20 mins and it premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland in 2010.  A Vogue fashion photographer by trade, Tim Walker made a dark debut film that tells the tale of a young girl, an unexpected visitor she finds in her back yard, and that features 300 canaries in a fabulous cameo shot!  

The film opens with the fluttering pages of Osa Johnson's most famous book 
I MARRIED ADVENTURE!

 

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Saturday, April 27 
Feature Film

  I Married Adventure

 
Doors Open at 6 Saturday night...program starts at 6:15!

in the CHANUTE HIGH SCHOOL Auditorium

(Visitor Maps Available at Museum)

A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, I Married Adventure stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name. Osa portrays herself in studio-produced scenes which bridge the transition between actual documentary footage segments as the film recounts the Johnsons' nine world expeditions to Africa, Borneo and the South Seas. 

Narration provided by Jim Bannon (a movie stuntman who lent his voice to many memorable westerns including that of Red Ryder), Don Clark, and Albert Duffy. 

This film is 118 mins. in length.


After the film, dessert and refreshments will be offered compliments of the Chanute Chapter of P.E.O, a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women.

 

 

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