Chang #1 (From Eric Beheim)

chang-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Following the commercial and artistic success of their 1925 feature-length documentary GRASS, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (who would later produce KING KONG) set about producing another “natural drama” CHANG. Its theme would be man’s conflict with the jungle. For their location, Cooper and Schoedsack selected the Laotian Province of Nan in Northeast Siam (now Thailand), said to be the most remote jungle in the world. (To get there, the filmmakers had to travel by horseback, on foot and by log canoe. The journey included sixty-seven river crossings.)