Croisière Jaune

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Originally planned route of the Croisière Jaune
Croisière Jaune's Citroën half-track vehicle
Left to right: John Oliver La Gorce, Vice President of the National Geographic Society, Georges-Marie Haardt , organizer and participant of the expedition, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , President of the National Geographic Society and Maynard Owen Williams, journalist and participant on December 3, 1930.

The Croisière Jaune ( "Yellow Cruise" or "Yellow expedition") was an expedition with Citroën - half-tracks across the Asian continent.

General

André Citroën sent his expedition leaders Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil, who were experienced in the Croisière Noire , on April 4, 1931 with 6 vehicles on the journey from Beirut to the Far East. The expedition participants included a. the French orientalist and archaeologist Joseph Hackin and the Russian-French painter and draftsman Alexander Evgenjewitsch Jakowlew . Maynard Owen Williams from the US National Geographic Society accompanied the expedition in Afghanistan .

Seven other vehicles came towards them from Tien Tsin to meet them in the Himalayas . On February 12, 1932, the expedition reached Beijing .

Georges-Marie Haardt died on March 16, 1932, shortly before Hong Kong . The expedition was then canceled and the crew and vehicles came back to France by ship.

documentation

In 1934 a feature-length documentary with many real-life recordings of the expedition was released.

Television series

The Croisière Jaune was filmed in a Franco-German joint production for television under the title La cloche tibétaine (German title: The Yellow Caravan ) in the early 1970s . In 1973 the British actor Roger Delgado died while filming in Turkey. The miniseries appeared in France in 1974 and in Germany in 1975.

literature

  • André Citroën / Fabien Sabates / Camille Cravan / Eric Baschet (eds.): The Yellow Expedition Beirut-Beijing 1931–1932. A historical photo report (translated by Erika Priesnitz and Elfi Gross). Swan, Kehl am Rhein 1979. ISBN 3-88230-201-1 .
  • Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil: Expedition Silk Road. With the first off-road vehicle from Beirut to Beijing, the legendary Expédition Citroën Center-Asie 1931–1932 . (Original title: La croisière jaune translated by Ilse Rothfuss). In: National Geographic Adventure Press. Volume 331. Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-89405-854-8 / ISBN 978-3-492-40331-3 ( Piper , Munich 2008).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Crisp: French Cinema — A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939 , Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016, p. 98. Available here.
  2. ↑ Cherchi Usai Paolo / Gutowski Alexa: La croisière jaune: Le film dans ses grandes lignes , in: 1895 - Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma, vol. 12, pp. 134-143. Available here.
  3. ↑ Alan Hayes / Richard McGinlay / Alys Hayes: Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorized Guide to the Avengers Series 1 , Morrisville: Lulu.com 2017, p. 147. Available here.

Web links

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