Fascinating topic Aquarius - having people note some "Interesting trivia from the movie" as you state. I am not sure what qualifies - but I had some thoughts about it. For what it's worth, I thought the scene where Charles Brown acts like a gorilla (ape) complete with chimp sounds was a bit anachronistic. I believe that gorillas and chimps were not really understood by Europeans in 1819. Since they were really described until 1847, there is no way for Brown to know what they acted like or how they sounded. I decided to check this and found the following from the web:
"It was as an amateur naturalist in Africa, though, that Savage gained fame. He was an inveterate collector, and by 1834 had already written a paper on chimpanzees with Jeffries Wyman, a rising young star at Harvard Medical School...... Wyman and Savage’s paper (another different paper), published in the Boston Journal of Natural History in December 1847, was the first full description of the creature that Wyman, ... named Troglodytes gorilla. Savage provided anecdotes about the gorilla’s behaviour and habitat, while Wyman wrote sections that carefully demonstrated the substantial differences between the gorilla and other great apes."
Not trying to be critical folks, just an interesting point of fact. You can see the link where the quote comes from here:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-repo ... -timeline/I would like to verify this of course. But I do remember that Keats's friend, Joseph Ritchie didn't go to Africa to explore it until 1819. He never lived to come back to England, as he died on the the return trip, as I understand it. At any rate, Charles Brown would not have known much about apes - if anything at all. And he certainly couldn't know what they sounded like because tape recorders didn't exist. Hope I didn't disappoint anyone with this silly info. Just thought it was "interesting."
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