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

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Peter Ellenshaw and Disney’s
Swiss Family Robinson movie Tobago

Matte artist Peter Ellenshaw painting on glass used on the set for a high quality in camera matte effect during the filming of the pirate ship blown up at Richmond Bay. The scene was filmed from the hill with the family fort but owing to the elevation needed, the hill and the nearby island was painted on glass in front of the camera. The wooden frame housing the glass is visible in this photo.

[Roger D.]

Totally amazing. Thank you for taking the time to research and post this. Awesome!

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Peter Ellenshaw at the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse set - Goldsborough, Tobago, 1959. Matte artist Peter Ellenshaw often painted on glass directly on the set for a high quality in camera matte effect.

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LES ROBINSONS DES MERS DU SUD - The Robinsons of the South Seas.

This SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON movie poster was distributed by Walt Disney Productions (France).

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This Swiss Family Robinson Lobby Card photograph was taken in 1959, in front of the treehouse set at Nanton Estate, Goldsborough, Tobago.

The tree in which the treehouse was built, is now well over 250 years old! You can visit and give the tree a big hug at Cow Farm Road, just off the Windward Road, Goldsborough, Tobago