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Indiana Jones
"The Human Spirit"
(Originally the second hour of
the 2-hour TV movie The
Adventures of Young
Indiana Jones: My First
Adventure)
TV episode
(41:52-end
on the My First Adventure
DVD)
Written by Jule Selbo
Directed by Michael Schultz
Original air date: July 10, 2000
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Indy visits Tangiers in 1908...where
slavery is still an accepted institution.
Read the "August 1908" entry of the
It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage Indiana Jones
chronology for a summary of this episode
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This episode takes place in summer 1908, shortly after
"My First Adventure".
Didja Know?
I've given this episode the title of "The
Human Spirit"
from dialog spoken by Miss Seymour about the evils of
slavery in this episode.
This "episode" was filmed to become the second hour of the TV
movie The Adventures of Young
Indiana Jones: My First
Adventure in 1996. Little Indy actor Corey Carrier has
noticeably grown in the few years since the previous episode,
"My First Adventure",
making his stature incongruous since these events supposedly
take place almost immediately after that episode.
Notes from the Old Indy bookends of
The
Young Indiana Chronicles
This "episode" was filmed to become the second hour of the
TV movie The Adventures of Young
Indiana Jones: My First
Adventure in 1996. Because of this, there were no Old Indy
bookends filmed for it.
Notes from
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones is a 2008 publication
that
purports to be Indy's journal as seen throughout The
Young Indiana Chronicles
and the big screen Indiana
Jones movies. The publication is also annotated with notes
from a functionary of the
Federal Security
Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the successor
agency of the Soviet Union's KGB. The FSB relieved Indy of his
journal in 1957 during the events of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The notations imply the journal was released to other
governments by the FSB in the early 21st Century. However, some
bookend segments of The
Young Indiana Chronicles
depict Old Indy still in
possession of the journal in 1992. The discrepancy has never
been resolved.
The journal as published skips over this time in Indy's
life. In fact, it goes from May 1908 to September 1909...over a
year! Are we to believe that Indy made no journal entries that
entire time? Perhaps the entries were excised by the Russians
for some reason when it was in their possession?
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Indy
Henry Jones, Sr.
Anna Jones
Miss Seymour
Sultan of Morocco (mentioned only)
Walter Harris
Emily Keene
Sheik Es-Salih
Omar
Haji
slaver
Rashid
slave auction bidder
Indy and his family visit the Moroccan city of
Tangiers.
Henry Sr. tells Indy, and we see evidence of it here, that
slavery still exists in Morocco of 1908. I've been unable to
confirm whether slavery still existed as a public
institution in the nation at that time or not.
Henry Sr. briefly misplaces his notebook, which had his lecture
for the sultan, on the ship during the trip to Tangiers. The
sultan of Morocco in 1908 was Abd al-Hafid (1875-1937).
The Jones family stays with Henry Sr.'s old friend Walter
Harris, a journalist for the
London
Times. Harris (1866-1933) was a real world
journalist known for his work covering the nation of
Morocco. Henry says they were students together, yet they
would have grown up in different areas of the UK (Scotland
and London) and they attended different universities (Oxford
for Henry and Cambridge for Harris), so it seems unlikely
they could have been student colleagues.
Harris takes the Jones' to meet the Sharifa of Jebel, a
British expatriate named Emily Keene. Though as far as I can
tell the city of Jebel is fictitious, Keene (1849-1944) was
a real world woman who married the Sharif of Ouazzane in
1873, but they divorced before the Sharif's death in 1891
and she remained unmarried thereafter. I guess, in the
Indiana Jones universe, Keene remarried, this time to
the Sharif of the fictitious Jebel!
The city where the Sharifa lives was filmed at the Aït
Benhaddou fortified village in Morocco. The river the Jones'
cross to get there is the Ounila River.
As they walk through the bazaar at 44:53 on the DVD, Indy
jumps into a mud puddle and inadvertently splatters his
father's suit vest with mud. But if you watch carefully in
the seconds before the event, you can spot that Henry's vest
already has the stain on it!
The lizard Indy finds inside the garden of the Sharif is a
chameleon.
Indy tells Omar how he has a friend who rode through Egypt
on a bicycle and how he had gone on an archaeological dig
with him. He is referring to T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of
Arabia), whom he met in
"My First Adventure".
When Omar asks Indy what an
archaeologist is, Indy says, "It's like someone who travels
around the world looking for lost civilizations." That is,
of course, an extremely oversimplified view of what
archaeologists do, but it does kind of suggest the type of
archaeologist Indy will become, more of an explorer and
adventurer looking for lost ruins and precious relics of
ancient times!
After Indy and Omar are captured to be sold at a slave
auction, the bidding is in rials. The rial
was a unit of currency in Morocco from 1882-1921.
Memorable Dialog
archaeologist.mp3
a slave.mp3
the human spirit.mp3
incense and dead cats.mp3
not to displease the sultan.mp3
I hope you get to be an archaeologist.mp3
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