Weekly Contest 08-04 to 08-11

2-franc Ursus arctos stamp,
France Scott 2261

Excluding Russia, the largest

wild population of brown bears

(Ursus arctos) in Europe is found in

A. The Pyrenees
Mountains of France and Spain

B. The Alps Mountains of Switzerland and
Italy

C. The Carpathian Mountains of Hungary
and Romania

D. The Dinaric Alps of the Balkans

I find this week's contest fitting because as some of you
know we have had a bear running around in town
till he was cot about two week's ago
and returned to the park.

Email you answer by midnight

Friday the 11th of aug for a chance

to win a FDC

Budrow@HIghland.Net

Please be sure to included your mailing

address with you answer

Happy Stamping.

And Good Luck

Weekly Contest Answer 07-23 to 07-29

The correct answer is A,
The Third Man.

The film directed by Carol Reed and
photographed by Robert Krasker
is noted for its atmospheric use of
contrasting shadows and light in a
tale of black market intrigue and
moral ambiguity set in
post-World War II
occupied Vienna.


The titular character casting the
shadow on the Austrian stamp is
Harry Lime, an evil blackmailer
played with great panache and
charm by Orson Welles.
The movie's atmosphere is heightened
by zither music. Director Reed wanted
a sound that would evoke the
atmosphere of Vienna.

He heard Anton Karas, a zither player,
performing in a beer garden.
Karas scored and performed
The Third Man Theme for the film's
soundtrack.

The song became a popular music
hit in its own right.
The zither is a traditional Tyrolian
instrument with 30 to 40 strings
over a soundboard played with
the fingers and a pick.
Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote the story
and screenplay on which
The Third Man was based.

Greene was an English journalist and author.
He also served as a British secret agent
for MI6 in Africa.

Greene disliked Americans in general
and Ronald Reagan in particular.
He was a lifelong friend of Soviet spy
Kim Philby and a personal friend of
Fidel Castro.

weekly contest 07-23 to 07-29

The overprint on this Austrian stamp shows a man
in a trench coat and hat and his shadow at
the Schoenlaterngasse in Vienna.

The overprint represents a scene from a movie famous
for its artistic use of the light and shadows
called "chiaroscuro." The move is

A. The Third Man
B. One, Two Three
C. The Big Lift
D. This Gun for Hire

Email you answer by midnight
Saturday the 29th for a chance
to win a FDC
Budrow@HIghland.Net

Happy Stamping.

And Good Luck