Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:32 am

Swiss Family Robinson film location Mt Irvine, Tobago - The site where ship captain, Moreland (Cecil Parker) and cabin boy "Bertie" (Janet Munro) are captured by the pirates.

Happy New Year to my Swiss Family Robinson Fan Family … All the best for 2022 and beyond.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:57 am

Dell Movie Classic Comic (Still 10c). 1960 movie - Swiss Family Robinson.

Main Photo - Screenshot of The Robinsons defending the family fort - filmed at Richmond Bay. Top right - MOVIE PROMO PHOTO - taken next to the treehouse at Goldsborough, Tobago 1959

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:59 am

Dell Movie Classic Comic. 1960 movie - Swiss Family Robinson.

The opening scenes of the movie with the Robinsons trapped inside the shipwrecked Swallow were filmed at the Disney Studio in Goowood, Tobago 1959.

The area is now the Goodwood Secondary School.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:02 am

Dell Movie Classic Comic. 1960 movie - Swiss Family Robinson.

In the movie version of the last page of the comic, the first two frames with Janet Munro an James MacArthur was filmed at Craig Hall waterfall, Moriah.

The closing scenes with Tommy Kirk leaving for London and Kevin Corcoran running on the beach, were filmed at Richmond Bay, Tobago 1959.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:42 am

Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson Filming Location - Belle Garden, Tobago 2021. Photograph courtesy Kerry Walcott

The 1960 Disney movie Swiss Family Robinson was filmed entirely in Tobago from August 1959 to January 1960 (except for the opening scenes with the ship caught in a storm - this was done using a model ship which was done in a studio in the U.K.).

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:42 am

Screenshot from Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson where the Robinson family escape from the shipwreck on a makeshift tub raft. This scene was filmed at Quashie Bay, now Shipwreck Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago 1959.

I cut the cable and pushed off (page 25)
Illustration by Victor Cooley in the Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. edition of the classic novel - Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:47 am

Screenshot from Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson where the Robinson family escape from the shipwreck on a makeshift tub raft. This scene was filmed at Quashie Bay, now Shipwreck Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago 1959.

I cut the cable and pushed off (page 25)
Illustration by Victor Cooley in the Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. edition of the classic novel - Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.

The 1960 Disney movie Swiss Family Robinson was filmed entirely in Tobago from August 1959 to January 1960.

Tobago in a classic novel!

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:40 pm

1960s Swiss Family Robinson Coloring Book.

Quashie Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago (renamed Shipwreck Bay after filming) was the filming location for the shipwreck and the tub raft scenes.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:46 pm

In 1959, Richmond Bay, Tobago was the most used beach filming location for Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson. The Robinson fort was built on the headland in the background.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:01 pm

Walt Disney’s 1960 movie - Swiss Family Robinson (Rereleased- 1976).
British Quad Movie Poster (30" x 40").

The shipwreck and tub raft scenes (left and center illustrations in poster) were filmed at Quashie Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago (renamed Shipwreck Bay after filming).

The pirate attack on the family fort (right illustrations in poster) was filmed at Richmond Bay, Tobago.

The treehouse (top right illustration in poster) was built on a Samaan tree in Goldsborough, Tobago. The tree is still there … now, well over 200 years old!

Filming of Swiss Family Robinson commenced in August 1959 and was completed in January 1960.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:20 pm

1960 Disney movie - Swiss Family Robinson.

Fritz (James MacArthur) and Ernst (Tommy Kirk) movie screenshot inserted in the present day film location - Shipwreck Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Fri Apr 01, 2022 4:30 pm

Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson note card from Kevin Kidney, Disney Creator and Art Director.

The card was printed in Anaheim, California by Old Colony Press using an antique letter press and authentic SFR printing block. It's a handmade work of art in itself.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 2:57 am

La Cuidadela de los Robinson - Spanish movie release of Swiss Family Robinson

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:58 pm

A CIDADELA DOS ROBINSON - The Citadel of the Robinsons

Composite photo
The shipwreck was built at Belle Garden Bay and the Robinsons landing was filmed at Richmond Bay, Tobago

After filming was completed in January 1960, the tub raft prop movie was abandoned on Richmond beach. A resident of the area salvaged one of the fiberglass coated wine barrel halves. Today, the prop is proudly displayed at the home of his nephew in Glamorgan, Tobago.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:48 pm

The Consulate General of Trinidad and Tobago

, André Laveau, visited Connecticut yesterday and was presented with a copy of The Disney Film Heritage of Tobago by Jazad N. Ali & Clement G. Williams.

Thank you Francis Cowie-Rowley for ‘bigging up

’

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Thu May 12, 2022 5:11 pm

Walt Disney’s Story of Swiss Family Robinson - 33 1/3 LP Record Narrated by Kevin ‘Moochie’ Corcoran.

Behind the scenes photo of Swiss Family Robinson. Kevin Corcoran enjoying a wheelbarrow ride to the movie set at Richmond Bay. He was just 10 years old when he played Young Francis in Swiss Family Robinson. He played Tommy Kirk’s brother in 5 different movies - Old Yeller (1957), Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Bon Voyage (1962) and Savage Sam (1963).

Kevin Corcoran (Moochie) autograph October 1959 - signed during a weekend trip to Buccoo Reef, Tobago with some of the Swiss Family Robinson cast and crew. Autograph courtesy Daniel Slo-Joe Archer.

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue May 17, 2022 5:01 am

Recent acquisition …

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON

THEIR LIFE AND ADVENTURES ON A DESERT ISLAND

Illustrated

Publisher - W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED LONDON AND EDINBURGH

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 2:45 am

Walt Disney Productions rented the Blue Haven Hotel and cottages, Bacolet Bay, Tobago for 6 months during the filming of Swiss Family Robinson in Tobago from August 1959 to January 1960

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:10 am

Swiss Family Robinson - Illustrations by T.H. Robinson. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press.

Swiss Family Robinson Film location for the shipwreck Sparrow. Quashie Bay, Belle Garden, Tobago . After filming of the movie in 1959, the bay was renamed Shipwreck Bay!

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON movie was filmed entirely in Tobago from August 1959 to January 1960 (except for the opening scenes with the ship caught in a storm - this was done using a model ship which was done in a studio in the U.K.).

Jazz557 · Post by **Jazz557** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:47 am

An emotional review of the book The Disney Film Heritage of Tobago - Swiss Family Robinson.
Review by Zita Devis. U.K. - Wife of James Devis - Focus Puller, Second Filming Unit, Swiss Family Robinson movie set Tobago - August 1959 to January 1960.

Sadly, Jim Devis passed away soon after the publication of the Second Edition of the book.

myTobago – your questions, review and comment about Tobago

Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie

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