The hippo rider might be George Emerson, who was the head animal trainer for the MGM Tarzan films. (In TARZAN AND HIS MATE, Emerson, doubling for Johnny Weissmuller, “rides” a hippo up out of a river in a scene that is supposed to show the hippo rescuing an unconscious Tarzan. |
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The News Parade #15
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I have wondered where MGM got the hippo for those scenes in T and Mate.
The only one readily available on the West Coast was Lotus of the Barnes show. She was used to being handled and would have been the prime candidate for being ridden. However, the animal in the Tarzan film does not look like Lotus. I do not see the protruding tusks (teeth) and that was a ready way to identify the old gal. Besides the hippo in the Tarzan film looks like a much younger animal.
There was no hippo in a West Coast zoo when T and Mate was filmed in 1933. So where did the animal come from?
The scenes in these frames look like a zoo setting.
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