Cannibals of the South Seas

Cannibals of the South Seas

trange people in a stranger land we know nothing of, a part of our own vast world- pictures photographed at the risk of life that you might see, without danger, what has never been seen before- those who have tried remained there- dead.

1918 · 4 min · ★ 6.5 · Documentary

First of many films by the husband/wife team of Martin and Osa Johnson, originally backed by George Eastman.

Directed by Martin E. Johnson

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The 1935 Morro films, shot by Martin and Osa Johnson, recount the 60,000 mile "Flying Safari" undertaken by the filmmakers as they flew their two amphibious airlanes(the Zebra stripped 'Osa's Ark' and the Giraffe-spotted 'Spirit of Africa') from Capetown, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. Famous shots from the movie include the first-ever aerial pictures of the tops of Africa's highest peaks, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. Along the journey, Martin filmed Osa surrounded by a pride of Lions and together they captured amazing scenes of a baboon colony, an event striking enough to give the movie its name.
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