On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:09:10 -0500, jeff wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

I remember the African Queen. I thought it was one of the two best
cast movies I ever saw. The other one was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier....
I had read the book and when I saw the movie I was able to identify
every character before they spoke - terrific casting.

I didn't see PT-109. I don't remember the reason, maybe I thought it
was a Kennedy production? I don't remember.


On display at Key Largo:
http://www.sv-loki.com/The_Trip/Flor...ricanQueen.jpg

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

The photo, on my small screen, was too small for me to read the sign.
Was this the actual boat used in the movie?
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:03:07 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:09:10 -0500, jeff wrote:

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

Not the original engine. They put in a Diesel to make the movie.
Current engine is a 15hp twin. Written up in Boating.

Casady


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". I always thought the name
was supposed to be rather grandiose to underline the rather derelict
condition of its owner.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:52:15 +0000, Larry wrote:

Marty wrote in
m:

30 years ago when I was a teen.


Boy, that'll hurt a lotta cruisers reading it.....me included!

....44 years ago when I was a teen.................Nuts.


Ah.. just a bunch of young whippersnappers..

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

Ah.. just a bunch of young whippersnappers..

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)




I know, I know.....You busted 1AW in 1915 for a spark gap violation with
the Commerce Dept. Radio Inspectors....(c;]

Bruce, did you know Roger Long's grandfather was on the air in 1905?! They
made him get a license much later and he became 2ABT in Albany.

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

The photo, on my small screen, was too small for me to read the sign.
Was this the actual boat used in the movie?
Cheers,


Sorry, yes it is the original. Here's a crop from the original:

http://www.sv-loki.com/Queen.jpg

I believe the original was built in England and shipped in parts for the
filming. However, much of the actual footage was a mockup on a raft
where all the parts could be moved around. Other footage was in a tank
in England, and some was using a model.

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

Larry wrote:
Marty wrote in
:

30 years ago when I was a teen.


Boy, that'll hurt a lotta cruisers reading it.....me included!

....44 years ago when I was a teen.................Nuts.


I just did a bit of arithmetic, should have written 38,, sheesh how
time flies when your havin' fun!

Cheers
Martin

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?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:47:55 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

Ah.. just a bunch of young whippersnappers..

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)




I know, I know.....You busted 1AW in 1915 for a spark gap violation with
the Commerce Dept. Radio Inspectors....(c;]

Nope but they did come looking for my younger brother in about 1949 0r
50. somebody gave him a "Tesla coil machine" and he used to come home
from school and "experiment" with it. Eventually there was a funny
looking panel truck driving around, had a big "ring" on the roof, and
one day a pleasant young guy rapped on the door and asked my mother if
anyone in the family was a radio operator. She showed him the Tesla
coil and he laughed. told her to tell her boy not to play with it when
people wanted to watch TV. It seems that my brother in his
"experiment" had attached an antenna to the coil and was broadcasting.

Bruce, did you know Roger Long's grandfather was on the air in 1905?! They
made him get a license much later and he became 2ABT in Albany.

Gives new meaning to being "Grandfathered".

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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.