RE: STEAMBOAT IN MOVIE:
Steamboating colleagues:
Thanks for drawing attention to the steamboat featured in the movie 'Love in the time of cholera.' Though filmed in Colombia, the original story was based in Venezuela. Reviewers--with mixed reviews--are calling the film an 'Anglo-Hollywood' production with wavering forced English accents. Cartagena may be the major port city indicated but I'd opine the scenes were shot on the Magdalena River--possibly. Sources here indicate the steamboat featured was the "restoration of a vintage steamboat." I've sleuted like crazy but find no link to the particulars on the boat. The boat, as pictured on this thread, has what appears to be a freshly painted hull.
I discovered a battered news clipping dated Nov. 27, 1921 with the report of an unnamed steamboat built at Pt. Pleasant, W. Va. for South America. No river there is mentioned. The knocked down boat components were loaded on 16 rail cars for transit to New York for loading for delivery by sea. This is intriguing and I wonder who out there has any additional information on this boat so constructed for South America? Denny Bros. in Scotland, Rees Co. in Pittsburgh and the Howards of Jeffersonville all had experience in construction of boats for foreign destinations. Howards were noted for their knock down boats for Alaska. Such boat projects were common back then with full steamships built for delivery up to the shores vast Lake Titicaca, Peru on the heights of the Andean altiplano. I snapped a photo of one of those ships several years ago while there. Well, what do I know?
Cheers,
R. Dale Flick
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