ZULU - the making of the film

[handyman [Alan}]

exhibition at cardiff castle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-12689135

enjoy

[jtalbot0001]

I thought I might add to this if people are interested in this history and/or film. I personally thought it was an excellent film, even by today's standards it's still good.

Anyhow, I thought I might tell you for those that have seen it, it has most of the backdrop as a Mountainous range, this is incorrect to the real Rorkes Drift. The backdrop they filmed in was the Drakensburg Mountains in Natal, South Africa, lovely mountain range, whereas the real Rorkes Drift, also Natal or Zululand as it was back then, is an area that is much more flat with some rolling hills, and Rorkes Drift itself has only one hill by it, where the Zulus did actually use snipers to take out the English, but as they had no training to use the rifles, they of course were not much of a threat, more of a nusance I would have thought at the time. If I am not mistaken it is still the only time the most Victoria Crosses to be awarded at one time for one event, 11 or 12 I think was given out.

Been there myself when I was young, here are two pics with one showing the hospital that caught fire during the battle and the other one shows our guide and the hill at the back which the Zulus used to snipe the English. The other stone like markings on the ground around the site actually show the exact position of all the sandbags/corn sacks used to make defences as well as stone and other material used to make defences. Facinating piece of history.

[Neil]

Images from the exhibition:

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

 Nice one Al. & Nei, l i'll have to go and see that,  i read at the ferndale Rugby club that they actually sang men of Harlech up on the Llanwonno mountain near Stanley Baker's Home.