Many thanks for showing this photo....How little we knew back in those days of innocence ....And you are so correct that in today's world the AR folks would lose their minds....Probably demand counseling sessions for those elephants who had to endure the ear humiliation while filming....
This is one of the Asian elephants MGM had made up to look like an African in the early Weismuller Tarzan movies. I do not know the man with the hat. The lady is Tarzan's mate "Jane" - -Marureen O'Sullivan. And of course there is Johhnny Weismuiler as Tarzan himself.
Johnny's first film in the loin cloth was 1932's TARZAN THE APE MAN. Shooting began in the fall of 1931, and since Johnny was an Olympic swimming champ, he was to swim in every picture. Louis Goebel learned filming was to begin at nearby Lake Sherwood, and he had all his animal trucks lined up the night before, on the road to the location. When MGM's crews showed up, Goebel informed them here are the animals they needed. He booked them all, and thus had the key animals on all 12 of Johnny's TARZAN films, all 16 of his JUNGLE JIM epics, and the 7 TARZAN entries starring Lex Barker. Chief Henry Tyndall had the lead chimps playing "Cheetah" and "Tamba" for all the films.
It is a little known item that a young Clyde Beatty came out from Peru that winter as a consultant with some of the Hagenbeck-Wallace animals that Goebel's collection was short on. I'm not sure, but it is possible the elephant man was MGM's Ralph Emerson.
Eric, that looks like Edgar and that might be Emma his first wife. I know that he later married Florence, but she was much younger then him. Most of the photos I have seen over the years, he was much older. p.j. holmes
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Movie Magic Mixed Breed
In today's PC environment
this might be called abuse
Perhaps an Afro-Asian
Many thanks for showing this photo....How little we knew back in those days of innocence ....And you are so correct that in today's world the AR folks would lose their minds....Probably demand counseling sessions for those elephants who had to endure the ear humiliation while filming....
Those AR phonies might claim
counseling but they probably
would euthanize them like so
many of the dogs & cats they
say they rescue
This is one of the Asian elephants MGM had made up to look like an African in the early Weismuller Tarzan movies. I do not know the man with the hat. The lady is Tarzan's mate "Jane" - -Marureen O'Sullivan. And of course there is Johhnny Weismuiler as Tarzan himself.
Johnny's first film in the loin cloth was 1932's TARZAN THE APE MAN. Shooting began in the fall of 1931, and since Johnny was an Olympic swimming champ, he was to swim in every picture. Louis Goebel learned filming was to begin at nearby Lake Sherwood, and he had all his animal trucks lined up the night before, on the road to the location. When MGM's crews showed up, Goebel informed them here are the animals they needed. He booked them all, and thus had the key animals on all 12 of Johnny's TARZAN films, all 16 of his JUNGLE JIM epics, and the 7 TARZAN entries starring Lex Barker. Chief Henry Tyndall had the lead chimps playing "Cheetah" and "Tamba" for all the films.
It is a little known item that a young Clyde Beatty came out from Peru that winter as a consultant with some of the Hagenbeck-Wallace animals that Goebel's collection was short on. I'm not sure, but it is possible the elephant man was MGM's Ralph Emerson.
Sometime, let's get CHIC to run a TARZAN series so I can tell about the nude swimming scene in 1934's TARZAN AND HIS MATE. No fair peeking until then.
I'll put it on the wish list Roger
Might not that be Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Eric, that looks like Edgar and that might be Emma his first wife. I know that he later married Florence, but she was much younger then him. Most of the photos I have seen over the years, he was much older. p.j. holmes
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