my contribution for the vinland saga fanbook 🥹🫶💗 i re-drew one of my favourite scenes 🫂✨💖
thank you for letting me join, @VinlandProjects !! ⛵️ it was such a pleasure to see everyone come together and express their love for the series🥳
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The Mote In God’s AI
AI background, Major Stress’s Leif Erikson mesh (because I lost the one I made years ago, and some post work in photoshop. So mixed media, I guess.
The authors famously based the novel’s hero ship on the AMT model kit designed by Matt Jeffries , who also designed the original USS Enterprise.
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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film directed by John Rawlins and starring Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu and Leif Erikson. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories. Unlike other films in the genre (The Thief of Bagdad), it features no monsters or supernatural elements.
This is the first feature film that Universal made using the three-strip Technicolor film process, although producer Walter Wanger had worked on two earlier Technicolor films for other studios: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) at Paramount and the 1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 for United Artists.
Plot (it may contain spoilers)
In ancient Persia, the young women of a royal harem read the story of Sherazade, unfolding the film's story. Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus, captures the attention of Kamar, the brother of the caliph, Haroun al-Rashid. Kamar's infatuation influences his attempts to seize the throne from Haroun and make Sherazade his queen. His revolt fails, and he is sentenced to slow death by exposure, but Kamar's men storm the palace and free their leader. Wounded and forced to flee, Haroun chances upon Sherazade's circus and is spotted by the young acrobat Ali Ben Ali. Aware of Haroun's identity, Ali hides him in the circus. Later, upon awakening from his injuries, Haroun beholds Sherazade and falls in love with her.
Meanwhile, Kamar assumes the throne, but Sherazade is not to be found. He orders the captain of his guard to find her, but a scheming grand vizier, Nadan, approaches the captain with the order to make Sherazade 'disappear.' After finding them, the captain sells the troupe into slavery. When the captain is found out, Nadan murders him in order to conceal his treachery. Haroun, Sherazade, and the acrobats escape the slave pens, but are found by Kamar's army and taken to a tent city in the desert. Kamar reunites with Sherazade and proposes, but she has fallen in love with Haroun instead. Nadan, recognizing the caliph, uses this knowledge to blackmail Sherazade into helping him remove Kamar from the throne, in return for safe conduct for Haroun out of the caliphate. In secret, however, he plans to have Haroun killed once he has crossed the border.
Upon learning of this insidious scheme, Ali and his fellow performers rescue Haroun, who then decides to free Sherazade with the help of the acrobats. But Haroun and the others are quickly captured, and Sherazade finally learns his true identity. Kamar engages Haroun in a swordfight, while the acrobats set fire to the tents; and the arrival of the caliph's loyal troops, summoned by Ali, triggers a massive battle. In the end, as Kamar prepares to deliver the deathstroke to Haroun, Nadan assassinates Kamar. But as he prepares to do in Haroun, Ahmad and Ali interfere, forcing him to flee. Nadan is stopped by a thrown spear and dies inside a burning tent, leaving Haroun, Sherazade, and their loyal friends to celebrate victory.
Cast
Jon Hall – Haroun-Al-Raschid
Maria Montez – Sherazade
Sabu – Ali Ben Ali
Leif Erikson – Kamar
Billy Gilbert – Ahmad
Edgar Barrier – Nadan
Richard Lane – Corporal
Turhan Bey – Captain of the Guard
John Qualen – Aladdin
Shemp Howard – Sinbad
William 'Wee Willie' Davis – Valda
Thomas Gomez – Hakim
Jeni Le Gon – Dresser / Dancer's Maid
Robert Greig – Eunuch
Charles Coleman – Eunuch
Emory Parnell – Harem Sentry
Harry Cording – Blacksmith
Robin Raymond – Slave Girl
Carmen D'Antonio – Harem Girl
The film was released on 25th December 1942.
Photos from ebay and text from wikipedia.
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The Voyages of Erik the Red and Leif Erikson in the 9th-10th centuries.
During the 9th century, the Vikings colonized Shetlands, the Faroes and Iceland. In the 10th century Erik the Red founded two Viking settlements in southern Greenland. His son Leif Eriksson is said to have landed on the island of Newfoundland around the year 1000.
by @LegendesCarto
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