Esperanto and Cinema Part Four. Esperanto Goes to Hollywood.

(Stephen Spielberg, as shown below, got a more friendly reception.)

You can find out more about the "Ackermuseum" and it's owner's involvement with Esperanto at his quirky but fascinating web-site, right here: http://www.best.com/~4forry/esper.htm

Forrest Ackerman is also an avid science fiction fan, with a huge collection of books and magazines, so this seems to be a suitable moment to mention that I will be discussing Esperanto and Science Fiction in later Topic articles.

That subject, ie sci-fi, (to use a term which Forrest Ackerman claims to have invented) seems to me to follow naturally from this discussion of the cinema. Then, after that, I will be turning my attention to another communication medium - popular music.

Meanwhile, there is still quite a lot of ground to cover before I have finished with Esperanto and the Cinema and in my next article I will be discussing four more Hollywood movies which made use of Esperanto, including the classic film mentioned at the beginning of this article: Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

As well as Charlie, some of the stars mentioned will be Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby, Heddy Lamarr, Robert Taylor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Paulette Goddard.

Finally, I would like to extend my personal sympathy to William Shatner, star of the Esperanto language film Incubus (to be discussed in a later article), and a science fiction author in his own right, for the personal tragedy which struck him a short time ago.

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Looking forward very much to your contributions to the discussion columns of this topic.

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