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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