1950 Dodge vehicles in British East Africa

[warrenpeace]

This 10 minute video on YouTube features the caravan of Dodge cars, buses, and trucks used by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer to film the 1950 version of King Solomon's Mines starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger. Very good video of these vehicles in action in a river and crawling over lava rocks. The repair bill for this caravan of vehicles was only $238 US. I thought this video would be of interest to the part of the Pulp crowd that likes old vehicles:

[Plynkes]

Very interesting, though it was obviously intended as a ten-minute advertisement for Dodge. Certainly more interesting viewing than the tepid movie MGM ended up making. Thanks.

The voice over chap had one thing wrong, though. They weren't in British East Africa, not unless they had a time machine in the back of one of those Dodges too. It hadn't been called that for thirty years in 1950.

[Doomsdave]

Good find.  Not nearly enough Deborah Kerr in that clip though.  Even though it's not the best pulp movie made, or the best rendering of Haggard's tale; this was one of the first 'adventure stories" I saw as a kid and got me interested in the genre.

[Ramirez Noname]

Cracking find - really enjoyed it.

Thanks,

RMZ

[carlos marighela]

The voice over chap had one thing wrong, though. They weren't in British East Africa, not unless they had a time machine in the back of one of those Dodges too. It hadn't been called that for thirty years in 1950.

Interestingly enough I posted some minis to a fellow LAFer in Portugal  this week. The Postmistress typed in Portugal on her screen to bring up the shipping costs and there  listed along with Portugal were Portuguese East Africa (modern day Mozambique) and Portuguese West Africa (Angola). Neither has been known as such for about half a century and they haven't been Portuguese colonies since the early 1970s.

Apparently at Australia Post it is forever 1974.

[Plynkes]

Apparently at Australia Post it is forever 1974.

Well at least they have Picnic at Hanging Rock to look forward to, or if time refuses to budge at all, for them Australia will always hold the Ashes.*




*[Edit] Hang on, no they won't. They won them back in the 74/75 Christmas series. So for postal workers stuck in 1974, England have the Ashes in perpetuity. Oops! 

[Dr Mathias]

Regarding the "British East Africa" thing, people are still referring to Myanmar as "formerly Burma" every time I hear mention of the nation.
Oddly, the Wikipedia entry starts:

Burma, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is a country in Southeast Asia.

If it's "official", why does a search on Wikipedia lead one straight to Burma?

People sure have a hard time letting go of names, maybe the narrator (rather the writer) had a hang up

Thanks for the link, pretty interesting.

[Plynkes]

Exonyms are funny old things. Apparently we're not supposed to say "Ivory Coast" either. The official English name for that country is Côte d'Ivoire, there is no such country as Ivory Coast. So the official English language name is actually in French. Whatever...

I'm okay with that, provided no Ivorians have the bare-faced gall to refer to my country as Royaume-Uni. 

[Mogimbu]

What a lovely bit of film.  Looks like Disney Jungle Cruise, by truck!
Thanks for sharing!