Buckles Blog: Chang #16

Saturday, February 27, 2010

chang-16, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Most of the herd is captured.

Roger Smith said...: These scenes are suspiciously close to elephant round-up scenes in Zoltan Korda's ELEPHANT BOY, Sabu's debut picture, shot a decade later, in 1937. This picture also includes violent stampede scenes, shot from the level of the trampling feet, and takes us amidst the angry captives milling threateningly in the kraal. Heavy logs over the pit notwithstanding, the crew shooting the outraged elephants above them earned their union dues for this one.

IMDb tells that the Maharajah of Mysore, Sabu's hometown, gave Korda permission to film there, providing true jungle and native wild elephants that would prove impossible to replicate on Hollywood backlots.

But IMDb doesn't suggest Korda's elephant shots were "borrowed" from CHANG.

ERIC, what is your take on this challenging similarity?; 27 February, 2010 19:10
Eric said...: Either Korda used stock footage from CHANG or studied it very carefully while planning ELEPHANT BOY.; 27 February, 2010 21:44

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