Word: sandstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Solomon's Mines is as rich in scenery as it is in make-believe. The principals are trapped in a sandstorm, in a burning thatched village, in a gurgling underground crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water...
With Faris, Carl Raswan rode over the billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
Eastbound from Albuquerque, the Lindberghs sat down on the Texas plains near Amarillo to wait out a blinding sandstorm, slept in their plane, arrived in Kansas City next day to learn they were being nationally headlined as "missing." Col. Lindbergh: ''People shouldn't worry. It's liable to happen any time in the Western country...
...Morning after leaving Bidon 5 they flew peacefully on to Timbuctoo's landing-field, Khabara. were forced down by a sandstorm, had to anchor the plane with sandbags, shelter themselves in a trench under it. The storm over, they flew peacefully Timbuctoo's on to landing-field, Timbuctoo Khabara. (Traveler Seabrook winds up his book with bitter remarks about the present impossibility of landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture...
...railroad means to the people for whom it was built?makes the margins of his industrial report bristle with human detail. Director Turin has shown himself cleverer than Eisenstein in one respect at least?he has suppressed propaganda. Best shots: camels loaded with raw wool moving impassively into a sandstorm; close-ups of tossing, tumbling water; natives looking at the first Turksib locomotive...