Remember how in the 50's and early 60's we used to see a lot of movies with credits listing Tanganyika as the prime filming location? From Stu Granger in King Solomon's Mines, on down to John Wayne in Hatari with "The Baby Elephant Walk"....
Then all of a sudden in around '63 or '64, Hollywood COMPLETELY stopped filming in Tanganyika.
Without googling the history of the place, does anyone remember why this happened?
***Hollywood COMPLETELY stopped filming in Tanganyika.***
Political upheaval. Tanganyika became independent and went communist for a while. the communists then overthrew the sultan of Zanzabar and united the two countries known today as Tanzania.
They got independence, merged with Zanzibar to form Tanzania... the process was not without the usual African “growing pains” requiring outside troops and lots of locals getting chopped by vying factions.