A friend of mine who is on a Jules Verne mailing list past this fascinating (and hopefully, true) info to me. KevinDavis: would this be of interest to members of your science fiction list?
Posted on 04/04/2006 7:20:43 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist
This week I did an amzing discovery that I’d like to share with my fellow Vernians: an audio recording of an interview with Jules Verne by a Dutch journalist!
A couple of days ago, I received an email from a Mrs Rina Appel from Amersfoort, a town not far from where I live. Among the inheritance left by her aunt, who passed away last year, she had found a small wooden crate containing five wax cilinders, each wrapped in a leather case. On the crate was a handwritten label that read “Jules Verne 1903”.
The crate had belonged to Rina Appel’s grandfather, Ger Appel. He was a reporter who worked for the newspaper “Amersfoortsche courant” in the beginning of the 20th century. After that, he wrote for “De Gids”, a literary magazine. Unfortunately, he got ill quite early in life. His daughter, Rina Appel’s aunt, nursed him until his death, and after that she stayed in the house, where she lived alone. Many items belonging to Ger Appel were still lying in the attic when she died.
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As far as I’m aware, no recordings of Verne’s voice are known. Now, over a century after his death, we will finally be able to hear what he sounded like. I’m very very pleased with this unique find, and of course I’m immensely grateful to Rina Appel for sharing her discovery with me!
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.uu.nl ...
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A friend of mine who is on a Jules Verne mailing list past this fascinating (and hopefully, true) info to me. KevinDavis: would this be of interest to members of your science fiction list?
Alfred Lord Tennyson - audio recording also on a wax cylinder from 1890 - reading The Charge of the Light Brigade (poor sound quality, unfortunately.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/tennyson.shtml
Wow. That is truly amazing to find out.
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Make sure you listen up to the end....
You know, this might even prompt me to re-read his classic 20,000 Leaks Under The Sea, maybe this time I can find out how Captain Drano plugged all those holes.
And his fantastic ship the Narcissist...
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Look at picture of the Newspaper -- it's an April Fool's joke, interview never took place, scroll to the right of the photo of the paper.
Neat
I see that it is an April Fools joke.
Those Dutch are such pranksters! I can say that since I'm half-Dutch. I'ill be visiting the small town in Holland my Dad was born in, in less than three weeks. The town (Schoondijke) was almost totally destroyed during WWII.
Had me going.Something like that,if it did exist,would fetch some $$$.
Good one! Those crazy Dutch.
Darn!
Yeats reciting "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" with a nice long intro.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1689
Frost reciting "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
http://media.salon.com/mp3s/frost1.mp3
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