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Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:02 am
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:42 am
by Jazz557
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.).
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:42 am
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:47 am
by Jazz557
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! 
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:40 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:46 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:01 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:20 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 4:30 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 2:57 am
by Jazz557
La Cuidadela de los Robinson - Spanish movie release of Swiss Family Robinson
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:58 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:48 pm
by Jazz557
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
’
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Thu May 12, 2022 5:11 pm
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 5:01 am
by Jazz557
Recent acquisition …
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
THEIR LIFE AND ADVENTURES ON A DESERT ISLAND
Illustrated
Publisher - W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 2:45 am
by Jazz557
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
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:10 am
by Jazz557
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.).
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:47 am
by Jazz557
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.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:10 pm
by Jazz557
Swiss Family Robinson - Illustrations by T.H. Robinson. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press.
Tommy Kirk (Ernst) lassoes the giant sea turtle to pull the raft and flotilla of animals (rescued from the shipwreck) ashore.
Boat Bay, Belle Garden was the film location for the rescue of animals from the shipwreck Swallow.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON was filmed entirely in Tobago from August 1959 to January 1960.
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:57 pm
by Jazz557
Tobago tee shirt … check out ‘O’ - The original set of SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
Re: Swiss Family Movie Sites Revisited - a revisit 60 years later, of filming locations used by Walt Disney in the movie
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:25 am
by Jazz557
