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The character in the screenplay is Irish. Morgan references this in a section of dialogue.
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When the director of The Sound of Music was discussing the production with Salzburgs city officials they hit a snag.
Many of the older city leaders (who remembered the annexation) were uncomfortable with the Nazi flags being draped over the town hall & other notable buildings.
What did the studio threaten to do which made them agree to the shots eventually seen in the movie?
Many of the older city leaders (who remembered the annexation) were uncomfortable with the Nazi flags being draped over the town hall & other notable buildings.
What did the studio threaten to do which made them agree to the shots eventually seen in the movie?
DaleCooper
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Did they threaten to force them to watch the film when completed?
Yes, that would be the ultimate deterrent -- I've spent the greater part of my life avoiding (successfully so far) seeing that film.
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No they had already committed to the area
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No Austrian saw the complete film for years as any many scenes were cut plus it was mostly complete fiction.
Not advancing the quiz in any way -- but if I'm right, wasn't what actually happened: the Von Trapps just got on a train and went to Italy?
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Correct. The day before the borders were closed. A clue. If they were refused permission to drape nazi emblems over city buildings what could the studio use instead to depict events?
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Not that. One more guess before I give the answer
martinsh
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Did they threaten to use historic newsreel footage ?
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Correct. This showed flag waving Salzburgers welcoming Nazi soldiers which persuaded the city elders to allow the flags to be hung on the buildings.
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martinsh
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Ooh ! Didn't expect that. total guess.
OK. Staying Austrian.
Here's an easy one. To what feature of Salzburg was a local official referring when he (recently) described it as having an "upside-down railway" ?
OK. Staying Austrian.
Here's an easy one. To what feature of Salzburg was a local official referring when he (recently) described it as having an "upside-down railway" ?
With use of Google being unsporting; am guessing that -- small crumb of maybe-info here -- he was referring to what Bryan Morgan, writing 60+ years ago, briefly mentions as the city's "ungentle funicular".
martinsh
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Not quite sure what you mean here, but Nope.
Feel free to Google, I don't think it will help
Have Googled. Nothing, I suppose, to do with the ride-on-rails for visitors to the salt mine at Hallein, near Salzburg?
Morgan, in The End of the Line, can be very curt / enigmatic / tantalising. Writing of Salzburg in the book, his words (correct as at the mid-1950s) are: "Salzburg is the centre for two independent light railways, in addition to having an ungentle funicular." And "that's all he wrote".
DaleCooper
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The trolleybus system?
martinsh
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Is correct.
Your unsightly overhead wiring.
PS quote was from head of transport dept, but I don't have a reference
DaleCooper
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Next question:
What links the following?
A fictional city
A town in England
A female dwarf
A ghost
A genus of butterflies
What links the following?
A fictional city
A town in England
A female dwarf
A ghost
A genus of butterflies
There can be seen as applicable to all: two-syllable words with endings in the "am / om / on" ballpark.
fictional city: Gotham (where Batman does his thing)
English town: Grantham
female dwarf: bantam -- well, a dwarf female chicken; wasn't there a British steam loco prototype called, at least as a nickname, Bantam Hen (and her mate Bantam Cock)?
ghost: phantom
butterfly genus: Sithon
DaleCooper
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The link is much less nebulous.
DaleCooper
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In the case of fictional dwarves presumably the creator of that fiction can give the sexes different names. The use of "nebulous" was reference to the previous post and was not meant as a clue.
The answer is neither planets nor stars.
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DaleCooper
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I've got a good clue waiting but it needs someone to have a guess at the answer before I can use it.
krus_aragon
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Here's my go at it. (I hope I don't spoil it.)
Female Dwarfs are few and far between. Apparently they're all male in Norse mythology. In the Tolkien mythology they're so seldom seen, many men believe that dwarf women don't even exist. His appendices to the Lord of the Rings state the only dwarf-woman named is Dís, daughter of Thrain II. That matches a town, but I don't know about any of the other categories...
Fictional city: ?
English town: Diss
Female dwarf: Dís
Ghost: ?
Butterfly genus: ?
Female Dwarfs are few and far between. Apparently they're all male in Norse mythology. In the Tolkien mythology they're so seldom seen, many men believe that dwarf women don't even exist. His appendices to the Lord of the Rings state the only dwarf-woman named is Dís, daughter of Thrain II. That matches a town, but I don't know about any of the other categories...
Fictional city: ?
English town: Diss
Female dwarf: Dís
Ghost: ?
Butterfly genus: ?
DaleCooper
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Now I can't use my brilliant clue which was "Dat's de wrong answer" because you have got most of it.
Having got that far you might as well have googled "Dis" to see if you could find the rest which are:
Dis - a fictional city (The Divine Comedy)
Diss - a town in England
Dis - a female dwarf (Tolkein)
Dis - a ghost, spirit or deity (Norse mythology)
Dis - a genus of skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae
You did the hard bit so it's your turn...