Wednesday 5 January 2011

Swiss Family Robinson

I suddenly thought of this absolute classic film from the 1940's over Christmas, as I remember it used to always be on tv around the festive period. Its the most unrealistic and frankly silly story of a family building the living in a treehouse after they are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Australia. The story started out as a novel written by Johann David Wyss, a Swiss pastor with the intent to teach his four sons the importance of family values, self-reliance and making use of the natural world around them.
Today there is even an attraction at Disney World, Florida modeled on the trees house depicted in the film!


.Anna.

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