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Richard Seaman film

Started by David Lawson , Mar 28 2012 16:31

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#1 David Lawson

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 16:31

There is a piece in May's edition of Motor Sport magazine about a film in production about Seaman.

Brian Oliver who is one of the producers of Rush is involved and has emphasised the back story of the Nazi funding of Mercedes and Auto Union, an Englishman in a German environment with an impending war and a tragic ending. Fingers crossed this is dealt with correctly.

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#2 kayemod

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 16:55

Fingers crossed this is dealt with correctly.

David

I'll be pleasantly surprised if it is, but I'm an eternal optimist, ever hopeful of being pleasantly surprised

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#3 PCC

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 20:13

Fingers crossed this is dealt with correctly.

Agreed. But there might be a lot of different opinions about what "correctly" means.

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#4 Vitesse2

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 23:21

Just as long as it has nothing to do with Phil Shirley: as I recorded here, the film rights to his never-published steaming pile of umbala were sold as long ago as 2003:

http://forums.autosp...w...t&p=2341439

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#5 jj2728

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 01:20

Just as long as it has nothing to do with Phil Shirley: as I recorded here, the film rights to his never-published steaming pile of umbala were sold as long ago as 2003:

http://forums.autosp...w...t&p=2341439

Hear hear... :up:

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#6 Doug Nye

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 08:48

I must say it's nice to see how 'umbala' is gaining currency... :smoking:

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#7 AAGR

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 08:57

From time to time, most of us who earn a crust by being 'professional' researchers come across fantasists like the man who proposed that rubbishy novel concerning Dick Seaman.
The tragedy is that such people believe in themselves, and are aggressively hurt if their word is doubted.
So, yes. 'Umbala' [love that word ....] it was ....

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#8 PCC

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 13:07

I must say it's nice to see how 'umbala' is gaining currency...

DCN

Not quite enough currency for my liking. I confess I had to look it up - and couldn't find it, so I still don't know what it means! Something akin to... um... 'poo'? :blush:

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#9 Vitesse2

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 15:58

Not quite enough currency for my liking. I confess I had to look it up - and couldn't find it, so I still don't know what it means! Something akin to... um... 'poo'?

If DCN heard it the same way as I did, it comes from a joke about a missionary preaching to a group of African natives who greet his every pronouncement with increasingly enthusiastic shouts of "Umbala!" Afterwards, pleased with how it went, he is crossing a field full of cattle and is advised to be careful not to step in the umbala ...

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#10 RobertE

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 18:12

I seem to recall the excellent Warren Mitchell telling that one on a Parkinson (?) show. But I remember it as 'Zumbala..."

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#11 PCC

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 18:44

Afterwards, pleased with how it went, he is crossing a field full of cattle and is advised to be careful not to step in the umbala ...

Splendid, thank you, I stand enlightened! And I have a great new word to use too...

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#12 simonlewisbooks

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 20:32

I seem to recall the excellent Warren Mitchell telling that one on a Parkinson (?) show. But I remember it as 'Zumbala..."

There was a Benny Hill version from the early 70s which from memory was 'Manuna', a word muttered repeatedly by grass-skirted lovelys on a South-Seas Island.
Benny assumes it's some sort of amorous invitation, until one of them tells him not to step in any of it...

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#13 Doug Nye

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 20:51

Splendid, thank you, I stand enlightened! And I have a great new word to use too...

EXACTLY the same derivation, confirmed...

Also a potentially crushing critique for any movie.

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#14 kayemod

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 22:28

I must say it's nice to see how 'umbala' is gaining currency...

DCN

Is it connected in any way to Iranu and Uvavu?

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#15 Russ Snyder

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 13:36

There was a Benny Hill version from the early 70s which from memory was 'Manuna', a word muttered repeatedly by grass-skirted lovelys on a South-Seas Island.
Benny assumes it's some sort of amorous invitation, until one of them tells him not to step in any of it...

Yes!

Benny was playing the bongo's and singing.

The gag - girl kept removing skirt's to reveal shorter and shorter, then run off stage...we and benny, expecting her to remove last tiny skirt, take's off her hair instead...and then make's comment.

Thank you for the new word.

under unblanced umbrella I bungle upon umbala in unique unison, unfortunately.

Good news to see another possible racing movie in the works!