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Sheldon Hall
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Hi Martin,
Unfortunately this well-known story seems to have got garbled in the telling. There is plenty of testimony from cast and crew to suggest that (1) the Zulus didn't really understand what a film was, and (2) they were concerned that the fighting might involve real bullets, etc. Stanley and second-unit director Bob Porter convinced them that the latter fear was groundless by play-acting death scenes, but had to show them an actual film to demonstrate what it was all for. Apparently they showed a Gene Autry (not Audie Murphy - the names sound alike) Western, to the Zulus' delight and thereafter had regular out-of-doors screenings for the Zulu cast during filming (see the photo illustration in my book). No-one has suggested that the real Gene Autry (or Audie Murphy) was present for either the screenings or the shooting! Sheldon |
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