Another movie with a sundial:
A 1965 English-subtitled foreign movie called *Terror Creatures from the* *Grave* had a character describing and showing a sundial. It was an azimuth dial, admittedly not an old or fancy one. It didn’t read in hours. It just marked one solar azimuth. In fact, it consisted of two sticks, vertically sticking in the ground. A long stick and a short one. Two characters were walking along the shore, and the woman called the man’s attention to something on the ground. He said, “What is it?”. She said it was a sundial that her father used to use to find out when the fish were biting. When the long stick’s shadow pointed toward the short stick, he would take his boat into the reeds. Of course one would expect fish to respond more to solar *altitude* than to azimuth. But there could have been a tree, or a vertical cliff-edge or building, that began or ceased to shade the fishing-spot at a certain solar azimuth. Michael Ossipoff
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