M. A. Wetherell

Marmaduke Arundel "Duke" Wetherell (1883  - 25 Fabrairu 1939) ya kasance ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na Burtaniya da Afirka ta Kudu, marubucin allo, furodusa, darektan fim kuma mai farauta.  Shi ne ke da alhakin yaudarar "Hoton likitan tiyata" na Loch Ness Monster.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haife shi a Bodmin, Cornwall, Wetherell ya yi aiki a fina-finai na Burtaniya da Afirka ta Kudu a lokacin da ba a yi shiru ba. A cikin shekarun 1920 ya rabu da samarwa da kuma jagorantar fina-finai amma ba su yi nasara ba.

Ya samar, ya ba da umarni kuma ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin shirye-shiryen Livingstone (1925) da Robinson Crusoe (1927). Wani shirin rayuwa na Lawrence na Arabiya da ake kira Revolt in the Desert wanda Freddie Young zai dauki hotonsa wanda ya dauki hotunan fina-finai na yaƙi The Somme (1927) da Victory (1928) bai faru ba. Wetherell shi ne mahaifin ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Ian Colin .

A cikin shekarun 1930, Marmaduke ya tafi Loch Ness don neman Loch Ness Monster. Wetherell ya yi iƙirarin cewa ya sami sawun sawun, amma lokacin da aka aika wa masana kimiyya sawun sautin don bincike sun zama daga hippopotamus; wani mai ba da dariya ya yi amfani da laima na hippopotamos. A sakamakon haka, ma'aikacinsa, Daily Mail ya yi wa Wetherell ba'a a bainar jama'a. Don samun fansa a kan Mail, Wetherell ya yi yaudarar "Hoton likitan tiyata" na Loch Ness Monster tare da ɗansa Ian (wanda ya sayi kayan don karya kuma ya ɗauki hotuna), surukinsa Christian Spurling (masanin zane-zane), da Maurice Chambers (wani wakilin inshora), suna ɗaukar hoto na jirgin ruwa mai amfani da ruwa da aka yi da itace na filastik kuma suna wuce shi a matsayin dodon. Chambers ya ba da faranti na daukar hoto ga Likitan tiyata Robert Kenneth Wilson, abokinsa wanda ya ji daɗin "kyakkyawan wasa". Wilson ya haɓaka faranti kuma ya sayar da hoton farko ga Daily Mail;  Mail zai sanar da cewa an ɗauki hoton dodon.  An bayyana hoton a matsayin yaudara tun farkon 1975,   amma wannan ba sananne ba ne a tsakanin jama'a har zuwa 1994.

 Hotunan da aka zaɓa 

Daraktan

Mai gabatarwa

 Roses na Picardy (1927) 

 Bayanan littattafai 

 Rachael ya rage. Tarihin Fim na Burtaniya, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

 Manazarta 

Category:Mutuwan 1939
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1883