Alby Mangels
Australian filmmaker
Zwier Albertus "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November 1948) is an Australian adventurer and documentary filmmaker widely remembered for his World Safari adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Safari III).
Early life and education
Zwier Albertus Mangels was born in the Netherlands on 16 November 1948. His father Johannes (Jos) was a leather tanner. The family moved to Australia in 1955, where they settled in Mount Burr, South Australia. After about eighteen months his parents separated after his mother, Adrianna, moved out with the lodger, taking Alby and his sister with her. They settled in Murray Bridge, but the relationship was a bad one. Adrianna developed cancer when Alby was around 16, and he spent several years caring for her before her death.
Mangels left school at 13 or 14, and as a teenager, undertook a wide variety of jobs, including chicken farming and house construction.
Travel and filming
World Safari
Inspired by filmmaker Malcolm Douglas and The Leyland Brothers, Mangels set off in 1971 with his friend John Fields, after buying a 16mm camera from a filmmaking friend, Jack Hume, in Adelaide. Leaving Murray Bridge, they first headed north to Darwin.
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