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Jeff

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:32:19 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:29:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Interesting. I had always assumed that it was just a boat that someone
built for the movie company as the story was fiction so there wasn't,
I believed, an "original" African Queen"
In passenger and freight service from 1912 to 1968, if that is
original enough. British built of riveted steel, by the way.

Casady

But was it the boat in the movie, or was the movie boat a copy? Or a
whole different boat?

Yes! That was the original boat. However, many of the shots were
special effects - a mockup, a water tank, models, etc. But for the
shots of an actual boat, that was it. Or so they claimed.