Mike:

I can assure you that there are no films at all in the current Club's
Archives, only couple of dozen or so still photos. These include a handful
of 8x10 b&w glossies of the photos shown at
http://www.amphicar.com/photog.htm , the well-known factory floor photo, the
shot of LBJ in his Amphicar from the LBJ Library in Texas that you donated
to the Club, various snapshots of this or that 90s-era Amphi-gathering, and
so on. In fact, most of the "Club Archives" really just consists of masters
and photocopies of old Newsletters. "Archives" sounds so grand, doesn't it?
But it's not like we have Hanns Trippel's toupee in a formaldehyde-filled
mason jar or anything...And even if we had, it probably would have ended up
in Dave the Wave's blender by now, right?

As you may recall, I actually bought the late Jim Nichols' former Amphicar.
Jim was the President of that former 70s-era Amphicar Club that you mention
below (a lot of the scanned Newsletters from which are available in the
current Club's password-required "Members Only" area of the website at
http://www.amphicar.com/memberslogin.html ). While I was picking up the
Amphi from Jim's father's place in Poughkeepsie, during the search for its
keys and whatnot in the house, I recall his father mentioning how he had
sent some boxes of Amphicar-related stuff that even included some of those
Amphicar belt buckles to Hugh Gordon. So I imagine that's where the film
you mention below has gotten to, along with the other incidentalia of the
former Club.

I guess it might be nice to get some 35mm prints made up of that film and
some other selected Amphi footage (including your Pepsi commercial) for the
Celina gatherings' Drive-In Movie event, but I suppose that would be up to
the new Board to sort out.

Since the topic of Amphicars in films does seems to come up on this List
fairly often, here is a shortlist of filmy appearances by Amphicars, with a
tip of the hat to David Chapman's www.amphicars.com website for a couple of
these items. If anyone has suggestions for additions or clarifications,
please drop me a line offlist. Perhaps I will one day cobble all of this
together and flesh it all out into a webpage or Newsletter article or
something:

"Castle De'ath", episode from "The Avengers" TV series (England, 1965)
(See http://www.dissolute.com.au/avweb/emmabw/405.html )

"Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS" (German, 1965)
A slightly goofy but still sort of charming travelogue-romance set in an
Amphicar. At the start of a bus tour of Italy and Yugoslavia, a man and a
woman who do not know each other somehow jointly win an Amphicar in a
raffle. Hijinks ensue as they follow the tour in their new
"wunder-fahrzeug". I don't believe there was ever an English version of
this film, which is sort of a shame.
[See its poster here:
http://www.filmplakat-oldies.de/plak...mit_100_PS.jpg ]

"Happening in Africa"
The English-dubbed version of "Lustschrei im Urwald" (see below), available
from Something Weird Video at http://www.somethingweird.com/5970.htm ]
Regrettably lacks many of the more bizarrely confused scene changes of the
German version that were clearly done "while high". It's still a glimmering
stinker though, and a "must-have" for every Amphciar owner's personal video
library.

"Lustschrei im Urwald" [Original Title: "Frissons Africains" (France,
1970?), aka. "Africa Erotica" (USA), "Happening in Africa" (USA), and "Karen
the Lovemaker" (USA)]
The German version of this movie is a perennial favorite of the German
Amphicar Club. As an example of the filmmaker's art it is so breathtakingly
rotten that it often aspires to make "Plan 9 from Outer Space", long
regarded as the worst film of all time, look like "Citizen Kane."
Definitely a must-see.

Madonna's "Start me up" [music video]
(This one comes off David Chapman's website. I never heard of it, but then I
missed about a decade or so of American Culture in my travels)

"The Presidents Analyst" (USA, 1967)
See: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...raechtwilcosm/

"Pontiac Moon" (USA, 1994)
NOTE: This is the film shown at last year's Celina Drive-In bash. In fact,
the Club helped cover the cost of the only existing 35mm print of it so that
this could happen...hopefully for many years to come.
See: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...raechtwilcosm/

"Rotten to the Core" (England, 1965)
See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059660/

"The Sandwich Man" (England, 1966)
See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060936/

Jameriqui's "Summertime" [music video] (1996)

(This one another off David Chapman's website, and again I never heard of it
or for that matter the artist, being so "un-hip" that it's a wonder my legs
don't fall off and all.)

"Bilgemaster Does Baltimore" (USA, 2005)
See: http://www.amphicar.com/youwish.htm





----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Echemann
To: amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:34 PM
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] Missing Films?

I happen to be reading some old Amphicar newsletters today and saw where the
old Club in the late 70's purchased an original promotional film on the
Amphicar. The purchased included a 1964 NBC new short about the Amphi.
Total cost $100 bucks.

Does anyone know of such a film or films? I have a couple of films that
I've never watched due to not having an old projector but think they are
simply the Pepsi Commercial film.
Any owners out there know of any old promotional film? I wonder what
happened to all of the old clubs stuff?

Mike




        
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